I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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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