When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)
BOBBY MCFERRINMusicians are the architects of heaven.
More Bobby McFerrin Quotes
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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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One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
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The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.
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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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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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If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,
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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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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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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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You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.
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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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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 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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Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time – it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.
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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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