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I couldn’t do anything without faith. I couldn’t open up my eyes, I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t sing.

Bobby McFerrin

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  Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life.

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  Music 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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  You keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

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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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  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 use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

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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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  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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  I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.

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  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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  One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

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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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  The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.

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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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  Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

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