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.
AL JARREAUA 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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