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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.

Al Jarreau

I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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Discover Jazz Music Must Once
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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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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Brought Come Democracy Follow Guy Jazz Name Sense Together
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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Bay Big Blue Dizzle Sky Sun Tree Window
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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Big Career Everything First Four Laugh Predict Record Share Three
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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Boppish Brother Go Kind Knew Live Older Room Sing Sister Something Stuff
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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Audience Back Coming Day Every Local Man Promoter Still Thanksgiving Yeah
I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Heart Lift Sing Soul Still Would
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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Call Came Folk Going Inherited Life Something Time
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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Day Eight Few Later Minute No Seven Stage Studio Very
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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Else Learn Little Lyric Message Require Somebody Unusual
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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Allow Audience Company Continue Give Good Health Music Obvious Record
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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Dad Grandfather Quater Sang Sound Together
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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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God Know Long Notion Suffer Want

and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.

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