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

• When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Today
  • Magic
  • Bird

• I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • World
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• I am really enthusiastic about my new council position because part of my satisfaction in life is feeling like I have done something. With this responsibility I hope I can accomplish things for the City of Williamstown and the people.

  

  Barbara Lewis
  • Hope
  • Responsibility
  • Satisfaction

• No matter where you are in life . . . you always have a choice and the choice can be power.

  

  Blaine Pardoe
  • Power
  • Choice
  • No Matter

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

  

  Herbie Hancock