I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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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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