You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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 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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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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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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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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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 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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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