Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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 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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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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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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