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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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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.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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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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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 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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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