Musicians are the architects of heaven.
BOBBY MCFERRINThe audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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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One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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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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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 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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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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Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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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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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 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 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 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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If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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