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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.

Bobby McFerrin

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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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  Musicians are the architects of heaven.

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  Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

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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 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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  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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  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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  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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  The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.

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  I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.

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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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  I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

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

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  The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.

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