Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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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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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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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 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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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