Find something you would do for free.
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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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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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.
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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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