If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
AL JARREAUTo sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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.
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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 came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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