In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
Bobby McFerrinMusic is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.
Bobby McFerrinWhen we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like theyโre talking to us. When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of โ or alongside โ the words of a song. I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.
Bobby McFerrin