Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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 would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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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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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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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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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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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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