The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
BOBBY MCFERRINI use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn’t there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
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Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.
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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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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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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Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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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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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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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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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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