Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
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Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.
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I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
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What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.
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One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.
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I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.
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You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.
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Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.
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Beauty is more than skin deep.
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My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!
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My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
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Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.
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One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
