Bobby McFerrin quote: "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."

And I just automatically said music. I hadn't really thought about it, but I thought, well I guess I...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

I've got one week left, and then I'm done for a year. I haven't had a sabbatical, I haven't taken a ...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anyth...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
BOBBY MCFERRIN

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some yo...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

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

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
BOBBY MCFERRIN

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a momen...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

If I can delay that [pain] for a moment and bring a little joy. . . and help them to see things a li...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to li...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
BOBBY MCFERRIN

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

I've been in the food line twice and every time I get to the front they tell me they don't have any ...
JUANITA MCFERRIN

This is not the same old Lafayette team and if we want to come out of that game with a win, we're go...
MELISSA MCFERRIN

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
BOBBY KNIGHT

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHT

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't...
BOBBY FISCHER

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that al...
BOBBY FLAY

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work ...
BOBBY SCOTT

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
BOBBY SANDS

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. We...
BOBBY KNIGHT

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college cam...
BOBBY SEALE

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.
BOBBY RIGGS

When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.
BOBBY LOCKE

Second guesses in putting are fatal.
BOBBY LOCKE

The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
BOBBY LOCKE

You drive for show but putt for dough.
BOBBY LOCKE

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.
BOBBY LOCKE

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that n...
BOBBY DARIN

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And wha...
BOBBY SEALE

Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homes...
BOBBY FLAY

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they'...
BOBBY FARRELLY

Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing...
BOBBY FLAY

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's...
BOBBY BOWDEN

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in Engl...
BOBBY SANDS

I don't want to look like a bum.
BOBBY FISCHER

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybod...
BOBBY FLAY

I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'...
BOBBY SEALE

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie int...
BOBBY FLAY

Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until...
BOBBY SCHILLING

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earli...
BOBBY FLAY

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business part...
BOBBY FLAY

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the S...
BOBBY SCOTT

If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someon...
BOBBY FLAY

We were young political revolutionaries. [Then-California Gov.] Reagan said we hated white folk. Tha...
BOBBY SEALE

We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black ...
BOBBY SEALE

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the progr...
BOBBY SEALE

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon ...
BOBBY SEALE

Seize the Time.
BOBBY SEALE

We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich an...
BOBBY SEALE

Our position was: "If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us,...
BOBBY SEALE

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somew...
BOBBY SEALE

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
BOBBY SEALE

I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob...
BOBBY WALLACE

Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have.
BOBBY DARNELL

I never lost a game. I just ran our of time.
BOBBY LAYNE

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
BOBBY HULL

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrat...
BOBBY NICHOLS

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many y...
BOBBY JONES

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a ...
BOBBY JONES

Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fa...
BOBBY LOCKE

Drive for show, but putt for dough.
BOBBY LOCKE

Forget about style; worry about results.
BOBBY ORR

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installm...
BOBBY HULL

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
BOBBY CLARKE

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the perc...
BOBBY BRAGAN

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is ...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don't care if guys whine and complain about this or t...
BOBBY KNIGHT

And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls...
BOBBY SCOTT

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very a...
BOBBY FLAY

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend school...
BOBBY SCOTT

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won so...
BOBBY ORR

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
BOBBY UNSER

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, a...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like th...
BOBBY KNIGHT

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
BOBBY SCOTT

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in m...
BOBBY SANDS

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential bas...
BOBBY SCOTT

Shopping in Thailand is super cheap and generally high quality. Bangkok is also safe. If you see any...
BOBBY LEE

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it...
BOBBY BOWDEN

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs ...
BOBBY VINTON

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidd...
BOBBY UNSER

I feel honesty always works.
BOBBY UNSER

Yellow usually means it's not that serious.
BOBBY UNSER

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
BOBBY KNIGHT

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, li...
BOBBY JINDAL

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terri...
BOBBY GHOSH

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
BOBBY DAVRO

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is impor...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, ...
BOBBY CLARKE

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at...
BOBBY MOYNIHAN

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I ...
BOBBY JINDAL

Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing ...
BOBBY JINDAL

India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we shoul...
BOBBY JINDAL

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
BOBBY JINDAL

My background is in health care.
BOBBY JINDAL

Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional o...
BOBBY JINDAL

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third ge...
BOBBY JINDAL

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign p...
BOBBY JINDAL

You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the...
BOBBY JINDAL

I don't think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it's a mistake to create new and...
BOBBY JINDAL

First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them...
BOBBY JINDAL

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to H...
BOBBY JINDAL

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both H...
BOBBY JINDAL

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release ...
BOBBY JINDAL

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're hel...
BOBBY JINDAL

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a b...
BOBBY JINDAL

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
BOBBY JINDAL

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow t...
BOBBY JINDAL

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state a...
BOBBY JINDAL

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley ...
BOBBY JINDAL

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. P...
BOBBY JINDAL

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winner...
BOBBY JINDAL

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who ...
BOBBY JINDAL

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools an...
BOBBY JINDAL

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
BOBBY SCOTT

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
BOBBY HEENAN

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
BOBBY SCOTT

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requiremen...
BOBBY GHOSH

I prefer lump charcoal over briquettes but I do use both for different reasons and different recipes...
BOBBY FLAY

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flam...
BOBBY FLAY

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cookin...
BOBBY FLAY

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a goo...
BOBBY HATFIELD

When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, wit...
BOBBY SEALE

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALE

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not o...
BOBBY GHOSH

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.
BOBBY FLAY

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
BOBBY RIGGS

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'...
BOBBY FLAY

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up ...
BOBBY FLAY

I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that...
BOBBY SANDS

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.
BOBBY FLAY

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some...
BOBBY SEALE

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at ...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to rel...
BOBBY KNIGHT

We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell fo...
BOBBY JINDAL

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked ...
BOBBY SEALE

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.
BOBBY SHERMAN

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state,...
BOBBY SCOTT

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an a...
BOBBY VINTON

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palm...
BOBBY JONES

With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band.
BOBBY HATFIELD

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives...
BOBBY SEALE

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who does...
BOBBY SANDS

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my baske...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way f...
BOBBY KNIGHT

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect,...
BOBBY SEALE

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one co...
BOBBY KEYS

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.
BOBBY DARIN

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.
BOBBY SEALE

You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles,...
BOBBY WOMACK

Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
BOBBY SEALE

I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.
BOBBY SEALE

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other ...
BOBBY SEALE

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years ...
BOBBY DOERR

The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put thre...
BOBBY FLAY

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.
BOBBY BROWN

Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. T...
BOBBY HEENAN

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or te...
BOBBY CHARLTON

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistak...
BOBBY ORR

And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the worst ...
BOBBY PINSON

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have ra...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - sav...
BOBBY KNIGHT

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indian...
BOBBY FISCHER

You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So...
BOBBY BOWDEN

There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.
BOBBY RAHAL

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the p...
BOBBY SEALE

Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don&...
BOBBY ORR

He has a challenge, but he's met challenges before. I'm just excited to watch this develop.
BOBBY MAY

As always, it's as soon as possible.
BOBBY MAY

Ridge had his third foul in the second quarter (at Franklin County). J.C. had two in the second quar...
BOBBY MARTIN

I don't worry about it. We work on situations everyday in practice. What can you do to prepare for t...
BOBBY MARTIN

It's a Western Valley District win. It is the Western Valley, isn't it? That's the right name of it?
BOBBY MARTIN

We're getting smarter. People don't realize we only start one senior. We got to get focused and keep...
BOBBY MARTIN

We came out very, very intense and I was excited about that. Except for a couple of mental letdowns ...
BOBBY MARTIN

It's tradition, and we're trying to keep it going.
BOBBY MARTIN

People need encouragement and need support. People want to know they can work through this.
BOBBY MARTIN

I equate this to Noah and the flood. Noah had a lot of rising water. At the end of the boat ride was...
BOBBY MARTIN

I thought they won, and I started to cry again. It feels great to win ... It's a completely opposite...
BOBBY MARTIN

My arms are my legs.
BOBBY MARTIN

We didn't execute - especially against a team this caliber - to get the right shot.
BOBBY LUTZ

Any time you have a player who has his talent and skills and is hungry to get better, you're excited...
BOBBY LUTZ

He is one of the great coaches, ... His record speaks for itself. When he took over Cincinnati, it w...
BOBBY LUTZ

While I am sorry to see Mitch leave and we will certainly miss him, he has made a difficult but wise...
BOBBY LUTZ

Martin brings something that Calvin can't do. But I'm not going to hand him the starting position be...
BOBBY LUTZ

He doesn't need to have five or six moves, and we don't want to take his power game away from him. H...
BOBBY LUTZ

If he were fully developed offensively, he wouldn't be coming to college.
BOBBY LUTZ

[That's not true, actually. St. Joseph's may not have been the better team Saturday night, but it is...
BOBBY LUTZ

We knew nobody expected us to win that game besides us, and our guys enjoy the challenge of proving ...
BOBBY LUTZ

The fact that he doesn't have to score, ... will allow him to score more.
BOBBY LUTZ

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.

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Bobby McFerrin

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.

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