I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
AL JARREAUIt’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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