Quotes by Bobby McFerrin

Bobby McFerrin

Here’s a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don’t worry, be happy In every life we have some trouble But when you worry you make it double Don’t worry, be happy Don’t worry, be happy now

Song

Want

Worry

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

Grew Up

Musician

Wonderful

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

Albums

Jazz

Music

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

Kids

Piano

Play

I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don’t see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things. If I have a mission it’s to make everyone who comes to my concerts leave feeling a heightened sense of freedom to play, sing, and enjoy themselves.

Deserve More

Play

Thinking

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Color

Music

Use

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.

School

Senior

Years

If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think that invites other people to see the world that way, too. I love sharing the experience of singing with people, and I love sharing my stories. But when it comes to teaching, I have a lot of help.

People

Teaching

Thinking

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don’t worry. Be happy.

Life Lesson

Positive Thinking

Worry

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

Needs

Powerful

Soul

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Albums

Architect

Audience

Birthday

Children

Color

Crafts

Deserve More

Father

Giving

Grew Up

Growing Up

Growth

Heaven

Influence

Instruments

Jazz

Joy

Kids

Laughing

Life

Life Lesson

Mind

Mistake

Mouths

Music

Musical

Musician

Needs

Parent

People

Performing

Piano

Play

Positive Thinking

Powerful

Real

Responsibility

San Francisco

School

Senior

Song

Soul

Teaching

Thinking

Use

Voice

Want

Wonderful

Worry

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Quotes by Bobby McFerrin

Bobby McFerrin

Here’s a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don’t worry, be happy In every life we have some trouble But when you worry you make it double Don’t worry, be happy Don’t worry, be happy now

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don’t see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things. If I have a mission it’s to make everyone who comes to my concerts leave feeling a heightened sense of freedom to play, sing, and enjoy themselves.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

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.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don’t worry. Be happy.

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

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