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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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  Musicians are the architects of heaven.

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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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  When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don’t worry BE HAPPY!:)

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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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  Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion.

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

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  Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind.

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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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  I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

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