Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
BOBBY MCFERRINPart 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
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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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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I’d actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
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I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I’m still and quiet inside, I’ll begin. It’s very personal; it has to be.
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When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us.
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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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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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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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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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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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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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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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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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