If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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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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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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 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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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