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?
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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 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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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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 eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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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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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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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 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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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 know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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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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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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Find something you would do for free.
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I’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.
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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’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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