I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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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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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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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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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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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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I was age six or seven, and singing, “Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him,” and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
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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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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.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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