Bobby McFerrin Quotes

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

  Bobby McFerrin

  Music, Heart, Science

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• 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 laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We're born with it.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Voice, Laughing, Soul

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• Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Mistake, Growth, Mind

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• I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Life Lesson, Positive Thinking, Worry

  Song: Don't Worry Be Happy

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

  Bobby McFerrin

  Moving, Next, Notes

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• Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Mean, Keys, Expectations

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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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.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Worry, Want

  Song: Don't Worry, Be Happy, Album: Simple Pleasures

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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.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Powerful, Soul, Needs

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• If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Happiness, Successful, Joy

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

  Bobby McFerrin

  Instruments, Performing, Audience

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• This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert...
  everyone has this sense of rejoicing.
  I don't want them to be blown away by what I do,
  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.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Real, Thinking, Joy

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• I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Drinking, Silly

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Musician, Honest, Being Honest

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• Musicians are the architects of heaven.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Heaven, Musician, Architect

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• To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Jobs, Artist, Joy

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

  Bobby McFerrin

  Worry, Faces, Your Face

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• 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 anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Thinking, Worry, Mouths

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• I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don't see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things. If I have a mission it's to make everyone who comes to my concerts leave feeling a heightened sense of freedom to play, sing, and enjoy themselves.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Thinking, Deserve More, Play

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Singing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

  Bobby McFerrin

  Life, Children, Responsibility

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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. 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.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Mean, Heart

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Bobby McFerrin

  Music, Color, Use

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• When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Teacher, Play, Lessons

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• My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Growing Up, Father, Crafts

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