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.
BOBBY MCFERRINImprovisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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I’d actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.
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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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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 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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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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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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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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The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.
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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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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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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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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 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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