Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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Here’s a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don’t worry, be happy In every life we have some trouble But when you worry you make it double Don’t worry, be happy Don’t worry, be happy now
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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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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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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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Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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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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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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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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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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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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If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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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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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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