The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 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 kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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