I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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 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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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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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 did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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