If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
AL JARREAUEvery living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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’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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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 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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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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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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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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