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 don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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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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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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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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We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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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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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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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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I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
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Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
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'Initially when it came up I tried to be pragmatic. But Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned. I came out of that whole period just thinking, I don't want to get involved directly, it's poison. I'll just shout my mouth off from the sidelines.' - source
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I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out of thinking too much, and sometimes something truly special can happen. That's the beautiful mystery of song writing - that you really don't know where these songs come from exactly, and you don't know how you came up with them - and god bless it that you should have the gift of channeling that.
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I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
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Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.
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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
