Top 30 B Mcferrin Quotes
#1. If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.
Bobby McFerrin
#2. 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.
Bobby McFerrin
#3. In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
Bobby McFerrin
#4. 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
#5. 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.
Bobby McFerrin
#6. Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
Bobby McFerrin
#7. To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.
Bobby McFerrin
#8. Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
Bobby McFerrin
#9. But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
Bobby McFerrin
#10. 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.
Bobby McFerrin
#11. It's a wonderful way to get at who someone is through their own love of music and going right at their subconsciousness if you will. You don't play girl singers for girl singers. You know, there's certain things. You do play Ellington for Bobby McFerrin.
Carol Friedman
#12. If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off ... then I'll be successful.
Bobby McFerrin
#13. Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.
Bobby McFerrin
#14. Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
Bobby McFerrin
#16. 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.
Bobby McFerrin
#17. 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
#19. To be a musician, you have to be honest ... to be honest ... to be honest.
Bobby McFerrin
#20. Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
Bobby McFerrin
#21. I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
Bobby McFerrin
#22. The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
Bobby McFerrin
#24. Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.
George Clinton
#25. I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
Bobby McFerrin
#26. 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.
Bobby McFerrin
#27. When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!
Bobby McFerrin
#28. 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
#29. I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
Bobby McFerrin
#30. I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
Bobby McFerrin
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