A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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 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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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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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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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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