Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
AL JARREAUSo 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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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 I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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 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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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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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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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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