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.
AL JARREAUSo given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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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 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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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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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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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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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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