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.
AL JARREAUI heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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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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’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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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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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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