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Bobby McFerrin

"I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible."

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"I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible."

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"A mind grows by what it feeds on."

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"The mind of a baby is a tabula rasa, society writes information on his mind."

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"My mind is an instrument of peaceI am the peaceMy heart sing the song of peaceMy mind dances with peaceI laugh with peaceMy soul is longing for peaceMy spirit is the source of peace."

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"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."

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"A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice."

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"The Brain is a chewed gum."

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"Thoughts are the imagination of the conscious mind and dreams are the imagination of the subconscious mind."

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"When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth."

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"Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism."

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"I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit."
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"I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar."
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"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."
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"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
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"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."
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"Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing."
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"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."
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"I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."
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"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."
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"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."
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