You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
AL JARREAUYou have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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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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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 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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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