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1. "The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts." ~ Bobby McFerrin
2. "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." ~ Bobby McFerrin
3. "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." ~ Bobby McFerrin
4. "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 McFerrin
5. "But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing." ~ Bobby McFerrin
6. "I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music." ~ Bobby McFerrin
7. "I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful." ~ Bobby McFerrin
8. "I have a lot of albums yet to do." ~ Bobby McFerrin
9. "I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument." ~ Bobby McFerrin
10. "I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit." ~ Bobby McFerrin
11. "I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar." ~ Bobby McFerrin
12. "I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories." ~ Bobby McFerrin
13. "My biggest musical influences are probably my parents." ~ Bobby McFerrin
14. "My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up." ~ Bobby McFerrin
15. "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." ~ Bobby McFerrin
16. "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." ~ Bobby McFerrin
17. "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." ~ Bobby McFerrin
18. "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." ~ Bobby McFerrin
19. "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." ~ Bobby McFerrin
20. "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." ~ Bobby McFerrin

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