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Bobby McFerrin

"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 grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."

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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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Bobby McFerrin
"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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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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"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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