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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More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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 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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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