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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
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Bobby McFerrin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 11
Beatboxer
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Jazz Musician
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Robert Keith McFerrin Jr.
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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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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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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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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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The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
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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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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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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
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But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
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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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Musicians are the architects of heaven.
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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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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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When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)
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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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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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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 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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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'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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