You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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.
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