The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
BOBBY MCFERRINI 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.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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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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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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