Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
AL JARREAULet that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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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 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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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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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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.
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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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