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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. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#bug #concert #conducting #did #done

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. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#bands #been #bobby #called #high

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. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#boss #bring #fact #get #going

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

— Bobby McFerrin

#craft #disciplined #father #growing #growing up

When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album. ↗

— Yanni

#believe #hear #however #i #i believe

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. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#african american #american #classical #classical music #contract

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. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#best #big #big band #california #college

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book. ↗

— John McGahern

#always #book #church #churches #evening

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#because #calms #i #like #me

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. ↗

— John McGahern

#completely #exist #i #i see #i think