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.
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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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