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.
AL JARREAUI kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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 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 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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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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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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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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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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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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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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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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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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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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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