I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
AL JARREAUI don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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