The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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 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’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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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’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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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