Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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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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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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