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.
BOBBY MCFERRINWhen 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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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time – it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.
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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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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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Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults
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Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It’s open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.
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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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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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