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 JARREAUMy eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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 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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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 came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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