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?
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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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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 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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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’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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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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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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