I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
AL JARREAUThat’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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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 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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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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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 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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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