You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
AL JARREAUIt’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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 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 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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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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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