I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
AL JARREAUI think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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 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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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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’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.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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Find something you would do for free.
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