Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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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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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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