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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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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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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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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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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My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.
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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.
