Quotes from Bobby McFerrin

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

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.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

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

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