I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
AL JARREAUTo sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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 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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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 really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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 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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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Find something you would do for free.
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