and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
AL JARREAUWhen 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?
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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