You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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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 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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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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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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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 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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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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.
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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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