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.
AL JARREAUA very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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 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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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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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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