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.
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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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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