and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
AL JARREAUI’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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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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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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’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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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