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 they're going to get up and tell their boss off. . . then I'll be successful.
Source: c.1985; in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
-- Bobby McFerrin, (Mar 11 1950-____), US jazz singer, songwriter, director; He is famous for his unaccompanied jazz styled improvisation; had first #1 acapella pop single: Don't Worry Be Happy, 1989.