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.
AL JARREAULet 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.
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
AL JARREAUI’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
AL JARREAUEvery day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
AL JARREAUSo given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
AL JARREAUI don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
AL JARREAUAl 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.
AL JARREAUA 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.
AL JARREAUBefore I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
AL JARREAUIt was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
AL JARREAUOh, 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.
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must.
AL JARREAUI watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
AL JARREAUUntil my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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.
AL JARREAUI 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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