Once you discover that you can, then you must.
AL JARREAUObviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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