Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

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• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Different
  • Emotions

• When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Real
  • School
  • Usc

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Artist

• She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• Physical training is mental warfare!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Training

• Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Tapas

• Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People

• All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

  

  Lisa See
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Gratitude

• When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • She
  • Fun
  • Mother

• It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

  

  Anthony Sampson
  • Up
  • World
  • Destiny

• Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Defend
  • Attacking

• Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

  

  Aimee Carter
  • Mean
  • Brave
  • Being Afraid

• Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Power
  • Truth

• Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

  

  David Deida
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• We appreciate all the calls and everything they've done for us.

  

  Buddy Miller Band of Joy
  • Appreciate
  • Calls

• The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

  

  Herbie Hancock
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