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.
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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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’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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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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