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Bobby McFerrin

"Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that."

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"Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that."

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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."

Love

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Bobby McFerrin
"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."

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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
"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."

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Bobby McFerrin
"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."

Home

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Bobby McFerrin
"Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that."

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

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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
"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."

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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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Aberjhani

"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"

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Aberjhani

"I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade."

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Aberjhani

"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."

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Aberjhani

"When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did."

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Aberjhani

"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."

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Aberjhani

"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."

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Aberjhani

"I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done."

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Aberjhani

"I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law."

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Aberjhani

"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."

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Aberjhani

"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."

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