I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
AL JARREAUI came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
AL JARREAUOh, 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.
AL JARREAUI don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
AL JARREAUI’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.
AL JARREAUThese songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
AL JARREAUJazz 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.
AL JARREAUThe ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
AL JARREAUIf it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
AL JARREAUI watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
AL JARREAUA very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
AL JARREAUObviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
AL JARREAUAl 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.
AL JARREAUSo given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
AL JARREAUIt’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
AL JARREAUI would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
AL JARREAUI can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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