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.
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 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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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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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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