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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.

Bobby McFerrin

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
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
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
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
If I sing “you broke my heart, you left me flat,” everyone knows exactly what that means – they know the story. But if I sing a line that’s plaintive or wailing, people can experience their own set of emotions and their own story.
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Heart Mean Song
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
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 want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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Book Children Writing
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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Doubt Little Song Want Worry
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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Crazy Ideas Mind
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 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
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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Moving Song Talking
One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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Nursery One Piece Rhyme Song Television
I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don’t see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things.
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Deserve More Play Thinking
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

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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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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