I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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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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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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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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