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.
AL JARREAUTo sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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.
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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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 why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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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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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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