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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More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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 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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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