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.
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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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