I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
AL JARREAUTo sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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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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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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