I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
AL JARREAUI did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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