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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.

Bobby McFerrin

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.
BOBBY MCFERRIN

Needs Powerful Soul
When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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Face Faces Worry Your
I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it’s the first thing that I do. I’ve been doing it for years and years.
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Book Israel Morning
The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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Heart Music Science
I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don’t see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things.
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Deserve More Play Thinking
It’s not that I don’t love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
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Children College Possible Song
Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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Play Song Years
When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of — or alongside — the words of a song.
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Alongside Figuring Harmony Perform Song
I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.
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Language Recognize Responded Sound Talking
Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I’m helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.
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Prayer Singing Spiritual
Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn’t there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
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Host Kind People
I couldn’t do anything without faith. I couldn’t open up my eyes, I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t sing.
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Eye Speak Walks
The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it’s the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We’re born with it.
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Laughing Soul Voice
You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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Fearful Forward Keep Life
I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
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Actually Almost Fought Idea Suppose
I do a lot of performing, but don’t get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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Chance Performing Writing

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