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AL JARREAUUntil 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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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 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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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 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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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