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.
AL JARREAUI can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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.
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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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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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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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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