Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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 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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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 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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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.
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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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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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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