I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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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 eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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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 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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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’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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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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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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