I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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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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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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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 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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