You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
AL JARREAUEvery day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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 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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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