The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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 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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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 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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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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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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You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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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.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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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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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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