The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
AL JARREAUEvery day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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