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.
BOBBY MCFERRINIt’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.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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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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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 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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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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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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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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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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