I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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 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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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