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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More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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 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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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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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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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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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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