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

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

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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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  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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  If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones,

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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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  Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It’s open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.

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  The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.

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

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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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