Popular Quotes by Bobby McFerrin

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• I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

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• I have a lot of albums yet to do.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

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• I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

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• 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#College 23

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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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• 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.

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