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.
AL JARREAUI really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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 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’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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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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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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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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