Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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 crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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Al 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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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 sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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