You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
AL JARREAUI think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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 I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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Oh, 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.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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