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?
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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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 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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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