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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

Bobby McFerrin

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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Expectations Keys Mean
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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Crazy Ideas Mind
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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Bible Country Morning People Spirit
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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Deserve More Play Thinking
One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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Nursery One Piece Rhyme Song Television
Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time – it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.
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Embrace Good Improve Play Recognize
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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Eye Speak Walks
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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Chance Performing Writing
I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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Color Music Use
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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Deserves Each Love Good Song
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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Alongside Figuring Harmony Perform Song
I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it’s the first thing that I do. I’ve been doing it for years and years.
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Book Israel Morning
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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Doubt Little Song Want Worry
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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Recipe Show Singing Try Way
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
BOBBY MCFERRIN

Children Life Responsibility
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.
BOBBY MCFERRIN

Depths Grace Joy Place Real Sense

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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