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.
AL JARREAUand I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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