I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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 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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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’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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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