If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
BOBBY MCFERRINI 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.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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I couldn’t do anything without faith. I couldn’t open up my eyes, I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t sing.
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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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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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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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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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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 can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe.
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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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