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.
AL JARREAUYou really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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 discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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