I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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 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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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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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 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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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