It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
AL JARREAUThese songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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