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.
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 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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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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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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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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 sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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