Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
AL JARREAUYou really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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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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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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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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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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