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.
BOBBY MCFERRINHere’s a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don’t worry, be happy.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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You can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe.
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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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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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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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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It’s open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.
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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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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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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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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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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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