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.
AL JARREAUOnce you discover that you can, then you must.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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 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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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 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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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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