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.
AL JARREAUIt was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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