To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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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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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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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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