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.
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 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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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 came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.
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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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Find something you would do for free.
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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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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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