Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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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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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 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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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