I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
AL JARREAUI 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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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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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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