I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
AL JARREAUI know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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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 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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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