I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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 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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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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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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 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 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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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