Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.
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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."
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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.
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She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
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Physical training is mental warfare!
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.
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Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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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.
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It's hard to get to the point where you feel motivated and energized to go back in and create new music when you feel like you've just drained yourself by pouring everything you have into the previous project. It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects.
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
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When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
