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 JARREAUWhen 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 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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Find something you would do for free.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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