I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
AL JARREAUThe ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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 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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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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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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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