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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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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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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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