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.
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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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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 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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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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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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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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