Bobby McFerrin Quotes

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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.
• I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
• I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.
• I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
• My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
• I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started…
• When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for…
• Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
• Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.
• To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.
• I have a lot of albums yet to do.
• The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
• I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
• In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
• I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
• Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing…
• Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs…
• If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact…

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