I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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’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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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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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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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