Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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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’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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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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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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