A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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