I do a lot of performing, but don’t get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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.
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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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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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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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If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it’s the first thing that I do. I’ve been doing it for years and years.
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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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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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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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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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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 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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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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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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