I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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 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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