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
BOBBY MCFERRINWhen you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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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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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s not that I don’t love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
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I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don’t see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things.
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When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of — or alongside — the words of a song.
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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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