If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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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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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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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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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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Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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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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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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