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.
AL JARREAULet 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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