I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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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 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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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