When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
BOBBY MCFERRINWhen you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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