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.
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.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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 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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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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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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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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 watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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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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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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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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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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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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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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