To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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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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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.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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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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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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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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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