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Here’s a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don’t worry, be happy.

Bobby McFerrin

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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Book Children Writing
Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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Expectations Keys Mean
Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.
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Needs Powerful Soul
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us.
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Moving Song Talking
The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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Audience Instruments Performing
If I have a mission it’s to make everyone who comes to my concerts leave feeling a heightened sense of freedom to play, sing, and enjoy themselves.
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Feel Heightened Psychologist Sing
This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert… everyone has this sense of rejoicing. I don’t want them to be blown away by what I do,
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Joy Real Thinking
Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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Moving Next Notes
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
You can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe.
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Recipe Show Singing Try Way
If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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People Teaching Thinking
Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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Architect Heaven Musician
The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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Heart Music Science
Here’s a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don’t worry, be happy In every life we have some trouble But when you worry you make it double Don’t worry, be happy Don’t worry, be happy now
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Doubt Little Song Want Worry
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
I want them to have this sense of real, real joy from the depths of their being. Because I think when you take them to that place, then you open up a place where grace can come in.
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Depths Grace Joy Place Real Sense

Here’s a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don’t worry, be happy.

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