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.
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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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 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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Find something you would do for free.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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