I’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 JARREAUMy eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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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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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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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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 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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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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