Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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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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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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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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’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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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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 living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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