I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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 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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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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