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.
AL JARREAUThe 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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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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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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 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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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