If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
BOBBY MCFERRINI 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.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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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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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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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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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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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 do a lot of performing, but don’t get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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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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