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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

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 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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Book Israel Morning
Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
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Expectations Keys Mean
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
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 use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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Color Music Use
I want them to have this sense of real, real joy from the depths of their being. Because I think when you take them to that place, then you open up a place where grace can come in.
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Depths Grace Joy Place Real Sense
The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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Audience Instruments Performing
You can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe.
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Recipe Show Singing Try Way
Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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Moving Next Notes
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 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
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
Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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Play Song Years
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

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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