That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
AL JARREAUIt’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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