You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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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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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One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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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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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 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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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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