Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

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• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Start

• I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Poor
  • Investment
  • Data

• I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Home

• I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Why
  • Friends

• As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Why
  • Help
  • Political

• You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Body
  • Look
  • Year

• When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Feet
  • Boat
  • Heels

• I'd really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Like
  • Actress
  • Chameleon

• I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

  

  Aarti Mann
  • Career
  • Brother
  • Daughter

• By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Life
  • Done
  • May

• I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Google

• Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

  

  H. C. Bunner
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Past

• The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Life
  • God
  • Lie

• It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Live
  • Sleep

• I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

  

  Winifred Mary Letts
  • Heart
  • Passing
  • Pearls

• God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Action
  • Spirit
  • God Is

• Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Love
  • Strangers

• Bei Dao became the most well-known name for me because of certain criticism of my work. Bei Dao was the name under which my work was criticized. So I became more well-known under Bei Dao than under the other names.

  

  Bei Dao
  • Work
  • Criticism
  • Names

• I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Prove
  • Genre