I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
AL JARREAUTo sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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 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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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