To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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