I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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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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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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