If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
AL JARREAUOh, 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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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 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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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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 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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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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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