I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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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 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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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 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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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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 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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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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