It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
AL JARREAUIt’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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