and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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 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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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