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.
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 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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I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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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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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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