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.
AL JARREAUI really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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 crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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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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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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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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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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