I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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’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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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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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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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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