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.
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 want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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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 do a lot of performing, but don’t get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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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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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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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 use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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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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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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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