I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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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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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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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 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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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