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All Quotes by author - Bobby McFerrin
" But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing. "
Career
Writing
Needs
" 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. "
Together
School
Living
" 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. "
Now
Concert
Done
" I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music. "
Go
Good
Get
" I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible. "
Singing
Mind
Possible
" 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. "
People
Boss
Joy
" I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. "
Wonderful
Time
Learning
" I have a lot of albums yet to do. "
Lot
Albums
" I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's 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. "
Song
Jazz
Dark
" I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. "
Like
Instrument
Color
" I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit. "
Play
Piano
Little
" I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. "
Started
Working
Me
" 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. "
You
Children
College
" I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. "
Children
Book
Want
" 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. "
People
Out
Music
" My biggest musical influences are probably my parents. "
Parents
Influences
Musical
" My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up. "
Craft
Hard
Growing Up
" 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. "
Children
Responsibility
Parents
" 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. "
Home
Father
Music
" 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. "
Crazy
Start
Singing
" 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. "
School
Best
California
" 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. "
Grammar
Like
School
" The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. "
Light
Bring
Hearts
" 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. "
Special
Birthday
Living
" 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. "
Music
Worry
Think
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