Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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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Oh, 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.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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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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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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