I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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 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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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 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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