It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
AL JARREAUI think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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’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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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 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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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