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.
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 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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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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 for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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