Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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 crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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