Influence Quote by Bobby McFerrin Download Open image “My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.” — Bobby McFerrin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Influence Music Musical Parent Parenting
My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
All my musical influences came from my mom, who did everything to music. She played it 24 hours a day, seven days a week… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music. — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician. — Lemmy Copy Share Image
I think my parents are the first influence on me music-wise. My dad was into Motown and soul, and my mom was into British… — Clairo Copy Share Image
Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
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… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
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.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
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… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
My coach, Robert Allen, helped me a lot. He had more influence on my growth as a player than anyone else. — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
Life is not about how much you have but how much you have affect others life positively. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Words can only have an effect on you if you choose to listen to them. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
