Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
AL JARREAUBefore I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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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 heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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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 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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