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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

Bobby McFerrin

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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Color Music Use
When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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Face Faces Worry Your
Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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Architect Heaven Musician
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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Actually Almost Fought Idea Suppose
Here’s a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don’t worry, be happy.
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Song Want Worry
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
If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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People Teaching Thinking
The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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Heart Music Science
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
Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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Play Song Years
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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Laughing Soul Voice
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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Book Children Writing
Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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Expectations Keys Mean
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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Actually Experience People School Senior Years
Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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Moving Next Notes
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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Children Life Responsibility

You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

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