It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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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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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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