Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
BOBBY MCFERRINI 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.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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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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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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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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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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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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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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Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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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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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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