Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

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• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
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• I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.

  

  Valerie June
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• Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

  

  Karen O
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• The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
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  • Discover

• When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
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• The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.

  

  Wanda Jackson
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• Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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• Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
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• I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

  

  Beverly Johnson
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• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
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• My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

  

  P. J. Plauger
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• If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
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• I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

  

  Erykah Badu
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• I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.

  

  Jay-Z
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• The group MoveOn.org has called on John McCain to release all of his medical records. In response, McCain told them, 'Why don't you just come down to the warehouse and look around for yourself? Bring a forklift, it'll take time.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
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• I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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  • Technology
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• I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.

  

  George Benson
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• I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
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• My father gave me one of those small, box-sized travel players when I was a kid and just a handful of records that he had. 'Zeppelin IV' was one. 'The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl,' which is just about the worst record ever - you can't hear anything, just screaming in the background. I think there was maybe, like, an Animals record.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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• She ran away with me, and we were getting farther and farther from the wagon. So I waited for a place where there were no cat's-claws and jumped off, ... I got up crying and walked back to the wagon.

  

  Jack Williamson
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• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

  

  Herbie Hancock
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