A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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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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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 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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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