The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
AL JARREAUI watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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’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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