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.
AL JARREAUI think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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 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’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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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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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