I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
AL JARREAUI’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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 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 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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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