I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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’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’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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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 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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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