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.
AL JARREAUI was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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Find something you would do for free.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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 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 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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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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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