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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago

Al Jarreau

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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Dad Grandfather Quater Sang Sound Together
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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Else Learn Little Lyric Message Require Somebody Unusual
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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Almost Band Big Either Jazz Need Ought Project Quartet Say Trio Twenty Year
I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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Country Door Grew Know More Next People
You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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Blue Decide Effort Jazz Music Seduce
So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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Fashion Give Heard Introduce Music New People Quite Soon Those
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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Age Beep Blood Broke Cheek Do Jesus People Pinck Right Seven Shine Sing Six Smile Something Son Vessel Want
Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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Ago Been Every Living Gone Good Long Tend Thing Time Toward
Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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Discover Jazz Music Must Once
I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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Hear Music Part
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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Call Came Folk Going Inherited Life Something Time
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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Boppish Brother Go Kind Knew Live Older Room Sing Sister Something Stuff
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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Better Citizen Eyes Father Husband Light Make Morning Mother Neighbour Put Tell
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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Being Evolution Go Human Lifetime Point Soul Stuff Think Through Try
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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Buy Church Concert Five Garden Graden Member Money New Old Piano Race Year
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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Bay Big Blue Dizzle Sky Sun Tree Window

Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago

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