Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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 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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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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If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 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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