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.
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 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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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 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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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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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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