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.
AL JARREAUAnd there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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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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