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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.

Bobby McFerrin

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
Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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Architect Heaven Musician
You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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Fearful Forward Keep Life
This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert… everyone has this sense of rejoicing. I don’t want them to be blown away by what I do,
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Joy Real Thinking
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
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 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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Back Dark Sit Song Thinking
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
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
I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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Color Music Use
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
Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I’m helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.
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Prayer Singing Spiritual
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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Language Recognize Responded Sound Talking
Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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Expectations Keys Mean
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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