Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
AL JARREAUI 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 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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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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