Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
AL JARREAUTo sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.
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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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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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