A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
AL JARREAUand I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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Find something you would do for free.
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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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