I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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 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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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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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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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 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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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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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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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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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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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