I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
AL JARREAUIf it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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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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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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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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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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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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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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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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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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