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
BOBBY MCFERRINRemembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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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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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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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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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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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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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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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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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.
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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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If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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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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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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