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.
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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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’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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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 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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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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