I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
AL JARREAUMy 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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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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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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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 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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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 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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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