You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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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.
AL JARREAUJazz 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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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.
AL JARREAUI 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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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.
AL JARREAUAl 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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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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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.
AL JARREAUI really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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 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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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.
AL JARREAUThat’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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
AL JARREAUand I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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.
AL JARREAUI’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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