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.
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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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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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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’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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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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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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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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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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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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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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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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If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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