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.
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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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 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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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