I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
AL JARREAUIt was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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