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Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
And I just automatically said music. I hadnt really thought about it, but I thought, well I guess Ill be a musician. It was pretty much like that. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
But, if theres any aspect of my career that needs attention, its writing. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
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 Quotes
I do a lot of performing, but dont get a chance to go to the studio and write good music. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
I dont want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
I have a lot of albums yet to do. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once Im still and quiet inside, Ill begin. Its very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as childrens stories. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
I want to write more albums. Right now, I release an album every two to three years, but I would like to release one every year. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
Id 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 Quotes
Ive got one week left, and then Im done for a year. I havent had a sabbatical, I havent taken a year off from touring in 15 years at least. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
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 theyre going to get up and tell their boss off... then Ill be successful. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
If I can delay that for a moment and bring a little joy... and help them to see things a little differently, then Ill be successful. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
Its not that I dont 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. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasnt there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
My biggest musical influences are probably my parents. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
So I went to California State University, the composition department, and I studied composition and orchestration and things like that. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
The true musician is to bring light into peoples hearts. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
When Im on stage by myself, I dont have to think about anything. I dont have to worry about anything because Im not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out. - Bobby Mcferrin Quotes
Quotes Cloud
About Aspect Attention Career Concert Done Guess
Just Like More Much Music Musician Needs
Orchestras Over Performances Phone Pretty Really Ring
Said Started That Then Theres Third Thought
Time Well With Writing
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