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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.
Bobby McFerrin
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Bobby McFerrin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 11
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Robert Keith McFerrin Jr.
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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 played piano as a kid I still play a little bit.
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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)
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The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
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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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Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
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But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.
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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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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 don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.
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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.
Bobby McFerrin
Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
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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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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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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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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 grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
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