I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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 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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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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 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 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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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 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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