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.
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.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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 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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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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