Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
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I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
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Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
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I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
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The Framers of the Constitution wisely understood that constitutional principles must not be sacrificed on the altar of political appeasement.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.
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I'm addicted to prescription glasses.
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Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.
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Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
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Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.
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I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.
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Others haven’t had the same luck. In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we’re startled, we’re alarmed.
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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
