The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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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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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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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 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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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 sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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