My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
AL JARREAUIt’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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