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.
AL JARREAUYou have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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 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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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 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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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