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.
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?
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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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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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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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