I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
AL JARREAUI’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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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Jazz 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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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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