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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More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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 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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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