Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
AL JARREAUJazz 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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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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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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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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