If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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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 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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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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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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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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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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