Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 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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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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