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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More Al Jarreau Quotes
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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 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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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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