I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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 discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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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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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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Find something you would do for free.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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