Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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