Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
AL JARREAUand I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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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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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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