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.
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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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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Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It’s open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.
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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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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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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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One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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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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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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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don’t see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things.
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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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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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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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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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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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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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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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