The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
BOBBY MCFERRINI actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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 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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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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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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This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert… everyone has this sense of rejoicing. I don’t want them to be blown away by what I do,
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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 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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so 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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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.
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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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