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.
AL JARREAUI kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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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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