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My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

- Bobby McFerrin
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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.

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.

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.

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

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

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.

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.

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.

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

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My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.