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.
AL JARREAUAl 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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 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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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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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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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