Quote by Bobby McFerrin
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give m

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. – Bobby McFerrin

Other quotes by Bobby McFerrin

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 theyre going to get up and tell their boss off… then Ill be successful. – Bobby McFerrin

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Morning
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I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. – Bobby McFerrin

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Learning
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I do like to shock and surprise people. When its all in good fun, of course. – Ruth Warrick

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Im amazed. When I was 40, I thought Id never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything. – Gloria Stuart

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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. – Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think Ill probably be given jewelry instead. – Susan Orlean

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia

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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. – Bernard Berenson

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. – Leonardo da Vinci

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