Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
AL JARREAUI would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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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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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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