I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
AL JARREAUEvery living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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 very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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 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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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