It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
AL JARREAUI sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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