Mcferrin Quotes

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)

Did I ever tell you that I want to wear a big yellow smiley-face mask and then put on the CD version of Bobby McFerrin’s ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ and then take a girl and a dog—a collie, a chow, a sharpei, it doesn’t really matter—and then hook up this transfusion pump, this IV set, and switch their blood, you know, pump the dog’s blood into the hardbody and vice versa, did I ever tell you this?

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

Don't worry, be happy!

Don't Worry! Be Happy!

From my travel blog @http://www.lwmcferrin.com/travel When faced with disaster, the best medicine is laughter.

Alternatively, if you don’t trust yourself, you might instruct the algorithm to follow the recommendation of whichever eminent psychologist you do trust. If your boyfriend eventually dumps you, the algorithm may walk you through the official five stages of grief, first helping you deny what happened by playing Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” then whipping up your anger with Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know,” encouraging you to bargain with Jacques Brel’s “Ne Me Quitte Pas” and Paul Young’s “Come Back and Stay,” dropping you into the pit of depression with Adele’s “Someone Like You” and “Hello,” and finally helping you accept the situation with Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.

In every life we have some trouble. But when you worry, you make it double

Oddly, McFerrin sounds very much like the New Testament when he commands his listeners to be happy. Over and over again in the pages of the New Testament,

Anaolu'dan asla kopamaz Fazil; ne insanlarindan ne de cografyasindan. Ikinci piyano koncertosuyla iste onlari anitlastirir. Kurt Masur ve Orchestre National de Paris'in siparisi uzerine yazdigi Silence of Anatolia, kilometrelerce uzanan issizligin, insansizligin, kimsesiz arazinin, yuksek daglarin, yaklasik 800000 km2 yuzolcumuyle Almanya'nin iki katindan daha buyjk ve topragi genelde en populer piyano eserinin adi gibi kara olan Anadolu'nun ucsuz bucaksiz sessizliginin muzikal oykusudur. Ankaradan da bahseder bu hikaye. Cumhuriyet oncesinde siradan yoksul bir Anadolu koyu olan ve bu gercegi, milyonlar kenti olarak bugun de tamamen reddedemeyen, belki de reddetmej istemeyen kentten... ... Ve tabi ki umudunu diri tutar Fazil. Onun sordugu baslica sorulardan biri, Dogu'nun ve batinin nasil birlestirilecegidir. Nasil bir kopru kurulabilir bu ikisi arasinda? Sorularin yanitlari vardir Fazil Say'da: Bobby Mcferrin ve Anadolu muzikcileriyle caz yaparak ya da Sabine Meyer icin, "divan sairlerinden birinin yasamini ve eserini konu alan bir klarnet komcertosu besteleyerek" boyle bir koprunun kurulabilecegini soyler.

Here's a little song I wrote, You might want to sing it note for note, Don't worry, be happy.

Lie #2: A “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” mindset, promoted by the popular 1988 Grammy Song of the Year of the same name by Bobby McFerrin, will make you happy.

Don't Worry - Be Happy

Many of us have become refugees,” the Dalai Lama tried to explain, “and there are a lot of difficulties in my own country. When I look only at that,” he said, cupping his hands into a small circle, “then I worry.” He widened his hands, breaking the circle open. “But when I look at the world, there are a lot of problems, even within the People’s Republic of China. For example, the Hui Muslim community in China has a lot of problems and suffering. And then outside China, there are many more problems and more suffering. When we see these things, we realize that not only do we suffer, but so do many of our human brothers and sisters. So when we look at the same event from a wider perspective, we will reduce the worrying and our own suffering.” I was struck by the simplicity and profundity of what the Dalai Lama was saying. This was far from “don’t worry, be happy,” as the popular Bobby McFerrin song says. This was not a denial of pain and suffering, but a shift in perspective—from oneself and toward others, from anguish to compassion—seeing that others are suffering as well. The remarkable thing about what the Dalai Lama was describing is that as we recognize others’ suffering and realize that we are not alone, our pain is lessened. Often we hear about another’s tragedy, and it makes us feel better about our own situation. This is quite different from what the Dalai Lama was doing. He was not contrasting his situation with others, but uniting his situation with others, enlarging his identity and seeing that he and the Tibetan people were not alone in their suffering. This recognition that we are all connected—whether Tibetan Buddhists or Hui Muslims—is the birth of empathy and compassion. I

It’s as though the gentle reggae strains of Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” have been sped up to a ska beat, and both worrying and unhappiness are now treated not just as a taboo but as an affliction you have a responsibility to treat. Curmudgeonly remarks, high-strung habits, and skepticism once merely meant you were a certain type of person, negative but relatively harmless, like Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street. But these days, “grouchiness” is often encountered as a condition for which you require intervention: a prescription, more meditation, more self-care, a subscription to O, The Oprah Magazine.