Bobby McFerrin Quotes

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.

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunities

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Me
  • Know

• I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Think

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• I think music docs could turn off some people.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Music
  • Power

• Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Falling

• YouTube has changed my life in a huge way. I mean, I wouldn't be able to pursue music and do what I love each day if it wasn't for the YouTube platform and for the people who watch my videos and share them.

  

  Megan Nicole
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Music
  • Men
  • Guy

• There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Fool

• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Inspiration
  • Philosophy
  • Adventure

• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • High
  • Struggle
  • Lonely

• 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.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Music
  • Worry