I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
AL JARREAUIf it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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When 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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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’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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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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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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