Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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Dabbing was a way of fashion that turned into a dance.
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People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
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Both my grandmother and mother used to wear the Red Roses cologne, and when I was 21 or 22, I smelled the same scent on a friend of mine.
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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'
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My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.
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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
