My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
AL JARREAUI don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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 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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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 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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 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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