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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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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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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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 can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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