I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
AL JARREAUI really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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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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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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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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