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.
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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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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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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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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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 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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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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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