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.
AL JARREAUI came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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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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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 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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Find something you would do for free.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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