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.
BOBBY MCFERRINThe true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I want them to have this sense of real, real joy from the depths of their being. Because I think when you take them to that place, then you open up a place where grace can come in.
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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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Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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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.
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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.
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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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One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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