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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

Bobby McFerrin

The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it’s the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We’re born with it.
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Laughing Soul Voice
I couldn’t do anything without faith. I couldn’t open up my eyes, I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t sing.
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Eye Speak Walks
You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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Fearful Forward Keep Life
When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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Face Faces Worry Your
One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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Nursery One Piece Rhyme Song Television
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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Needs Powerful Soul
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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Chance Performing Writing
Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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Play Song Years
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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Deserve More Play Thinking
The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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Audience Instruments Performing
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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Bible Country Morning People Spirit
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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Embrace Good Improve Play Recognize
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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Book Israel Morning
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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Feel Heightened Psychologist Sing
I 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.
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Language Recognize Responded Sound Talking
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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Alongside Figuring Harmony Perform Song

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