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.
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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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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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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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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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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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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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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 I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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