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 McFerrinI prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
Bobby McFerrinWhen you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)
Bobby McFerrinWhen we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.
Bobby McFerrinImprovisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion โ you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. Thatโs how life is.
Bobby McFerrinI try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.
Bobby McFerrin