Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Herbie Hancock

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• When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Want
  • Hero

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Angry
  • Attacks

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.

  

  Cheryl Mills

• David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Good

• I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Soul

• The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Community

• Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

  

  Cheyenne Jackson
  • Home

• I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven't proven successful because there is no formula in romance.

  

  Jessie Cave
  • Life

• I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

  

  Arvind Gupta
  • Business
  • Promise

• Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Imagination
  • Halloween

• Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Up
  • Writing

• The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.

  

  Arpad Busson
  • Good
  • Money

• The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Future

• Collaboration s are always something that I have been interested in, it’s not something that I necessarily chase, they just tend to come along, so as a result of that it ends up being really natural.

  

  JP Cooper
  • Natural
  • Interested
  • Collaboration

• I love romantic comedies. I love romantic movies. I'm kind of a sucker for them, and, sort of end up crying at the end of them all, like a child.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Up
  • Child
  • Romantic

• One study, based on Medicaid data in thirteen states, found that 12.4 percent of children in foster care received antipsychotics, compared with 1.4 percent of Medicaid-eligible children in general.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Care
  • Study

• I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

  

  Bjork
  • Life

• Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

  

  Herbie Hancock