Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 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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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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 kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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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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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 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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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