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.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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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.
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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.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!
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I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.
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The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.
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Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.
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I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.
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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.
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I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.
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Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.
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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.
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The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
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The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.
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I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.
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Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
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The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.
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I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
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The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .
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I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.
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The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
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Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
