My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
AL JARREAUObviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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 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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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 came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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