Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.
BOBBY MCFERRINMusic 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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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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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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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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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.
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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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