and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
AL JARREAUI would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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 living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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