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One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

Bobby McFerrin

The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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Heart Music Science
Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I’m helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.
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Prayer Singing Spiritual
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
Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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Architect Heaven Musician
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
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I’m still and quiet inside, I’ll begin. It’s very personal; it has to be.
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Back Dark Sit Song Thinking
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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Crazy Ideas Mind
Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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Play Song Years
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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Actually Experience People School Senior Years
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
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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Song Want Worry
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
If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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People Teaching Thinking
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
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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Actually Almost Fought Idea Suppose
Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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Expectations Keys Mean

One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

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