I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
AL JARREAUMy 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 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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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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