I was age six or seven, and singing, “Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him,” and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
AL JARREAUI really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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Oh, 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.
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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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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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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.
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