I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it. Al Jarreau More Quotes by Al Jarreau More Quotes From Al Jarreau I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do. Al Jarreau looking me music opportunity More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio. Al Jarreau live doing boat things-happen Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career. Al Jarreau rest you singing experience I've got an odometer on my voice that has out-odometered an odometer on an automobile. Al Jarreau got automobile voice I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me. Al Jarreau day me music mother I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and drinking beers and having a great time. I know more polkas than Frankie Yancovic! Al Jarreau singing time night people