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.
AL JARREAUI heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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