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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

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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.
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Improvisation
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To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.
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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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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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The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
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I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
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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.
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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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I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
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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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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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In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
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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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