Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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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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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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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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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