I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
AL JARREAUEvery 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.
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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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