Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
AL JARREAUI heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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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 did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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