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.
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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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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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?
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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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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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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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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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 think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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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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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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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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Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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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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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’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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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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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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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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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 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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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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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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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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