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The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
Bobby McFerrin
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Bobby McFerrin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 11
Beatboxer
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Robert Keith McFerrin Jr.
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I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it for years and years. 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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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.
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I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
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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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To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.
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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think that invites other people to see the world that way, too. I love sharing the experience of singing with people, and I love sharing my stories. But when it comes to teaching, I have a lot of help.
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I played piano as a kid I still play a little bit.
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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.
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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.
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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.
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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.
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I’m not a scholar or a psychologist, so I don’t really think about why. But I do think about what it means to sing to and with people, to offer music to them, and to ask them to spend time with me.
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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.
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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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I have a lot of albums yet to do.
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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.
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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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