My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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The 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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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’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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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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