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

• Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Happy
  • British
  • Dialect

• As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Always

• 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

• Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • Different

• 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

• There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?

  

  Per Petterson
  • Good
  • Long

• 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 saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.

  

  Emilio Estevez

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

  

  Arvind Gupta
  • Business
  • Promise

• In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

  

  Bil Keane
  • Family
  • Inspiration
  • Circus

• Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

  

  Raphael Saadiq
  • School
  • Isaac

• We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Community
  • Action
  • Support

• What I like about 'Paper Girls' in particular is that, because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more and think more of their interiority.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Emotional
  • Perspective

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

  

  Herbie Hancock