I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
BOBBY MCFERRINImprovisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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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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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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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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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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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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