I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
AL JARREAUI 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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’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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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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