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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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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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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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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To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career.
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At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.
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Some of the pictures I work on a long time and they look as if I've knocked them out, you know, and there are other pictures that come off right away. The immediacy can be accomplished in a picture that's been worked on for a long time just as well as if it's been done rapidly, you see. But I don't find that any of these things prove anything really.
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Money is like manure, it should be spread around.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
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But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.
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Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
