Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
AL JARREAUThe ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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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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 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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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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