The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
AL JARREAUI heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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