Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
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Action expresses priorities.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.
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By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.
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Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.
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A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.
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Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.
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In an ever-changing global marketplace, the one factor any state can count on is the skills of its upcoming and existing workforce.
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The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.
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It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
