Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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.
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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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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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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 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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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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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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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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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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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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