I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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’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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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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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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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 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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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