I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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 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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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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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 I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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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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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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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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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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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