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.
BOBBY MCFERRINI actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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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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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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I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I’m still and quiet inside, I’ll begin. It’s very personal; it has to be.
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If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind.
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So I want to come back here [to Israel] to see the places that I read about every day. It’s very important to my faith to feed [my] spirit in Israel.
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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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I’d actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
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If I sing “you broke my heart, you left me flat,” everyone knows exactly what that means – they know the story. But if I sing a line that’s plaintive or wailing, people can experience their own set of emotions and their own story.
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