I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
AL JARREAUAnd 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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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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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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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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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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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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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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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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