The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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 don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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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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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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