I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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 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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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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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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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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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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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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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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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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.
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