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.
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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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Find something you would do for free.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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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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