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.
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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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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