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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More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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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