I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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