Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.

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• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
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  • Lea Michele

• It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Life
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• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
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• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  

  Edna Ferber
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• When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
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• I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
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  • Try
  • Looking

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

  

  Feist
  • Time
  • Studios
  • Proper

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
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• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hand

• I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Dream
  • Movies
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• And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Musicians
  • Harder
  • Hide

• It would be nice to not have to prove myself and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
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• When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• I believe children's blessings are very powerful.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. … Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Good
  • Long
  • Attention

• We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations.

  

  Samuel Adams
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• A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

  

  I. F. Stone
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• The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

  

  Kit Bond
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  • American
  • Death

• Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

  

  Don King
  • Time
  • Art

• I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

  

  Chip Esten
  • Music
  • College
  • Band

• I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Past