I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
AL JARREAUJazz 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.
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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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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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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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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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