You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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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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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.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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