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.
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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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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 was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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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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