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.
AL JARREAUI can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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