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Bobby McFerrin

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence."

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Donna Grant

"My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless."

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Donna Grant

"Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides."

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Donna Grant

"Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year."

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Donna Grant

"I've never wanted to be the boss."

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Donna Grant

"I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play."

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Donna Grant

"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."

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Donna Grant

"The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children."

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Donna Grant

"OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head."

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Donna Grant

"The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it."

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Bobby McFerrin
"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."

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Bobby McFerrin
"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."

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Bobby McFerrin
"It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible."

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Bobby McFerrin
"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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Bobby McFerrin
"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."

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Bobby McFerrin
"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."

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Bobby McFerrin
"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."

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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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Bobby McFerrin
"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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Bobby McFerrin
"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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