I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
AL JARREAUYou have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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 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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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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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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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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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