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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

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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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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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As I approach my 88th birthday, its become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, arent quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing. – Mike Wallace

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. – Don Marquis

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God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. – Jim Valvano

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. – Thomas Jefferson

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Ive done some TV and Ive done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. Im used to learning material and words. – Sutton Foster

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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. – John Calvin

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