I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
AL JARREAUI think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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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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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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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 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 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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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