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I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

Bobby McFerrin

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Bobby McFerrin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 11
Beatboxer
Conductor
Jazz Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Vocalist
Manhattan borough
New York City
Robert Keith McFerrin Jr.
Robert Keith McFerrin
Jr.
Robert McFerrin
Jr.
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Clear
Anything
Mind
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
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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.
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I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
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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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Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life. 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. Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time — it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.
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I have a lot of albums yet to do.
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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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But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
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Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.
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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
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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 to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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I played piano as a kid I still play a little bit.
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In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
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