I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
BOBBY MCFERRINYou 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.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us.
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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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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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 do a lot of performing, but don’t get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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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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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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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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One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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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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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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