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.
AL JARREAUThat’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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 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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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 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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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 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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