Bobby McFerrin Quotes

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

I went to college to make music and study music.

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

I still miss music and singing. One day, I'm going to sing with a big band.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.