That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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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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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’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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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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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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