Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
AL JARREAUI’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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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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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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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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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