"The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative."

-- Bobby McFerrin

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“Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.”
“The main social responsibility for a company is to win.”
“The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.”
“We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.”
“Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.”
“And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin
“When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.”

Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
“I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?”

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