When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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 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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Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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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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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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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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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 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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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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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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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 do a lot of performing, but don’t get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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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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