So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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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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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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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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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Find something you would do for free.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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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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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 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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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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