Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
AL JARREAUIt’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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and 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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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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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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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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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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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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