Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

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• I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Think
  • Want
  • Effort

• Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Want
  • Me
  • Change

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Partner

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Fun
  • You
  • Places

• History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • History
  • Study
  • Questions

• I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Work
  • Me
  • Actor

• The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Time
  • Power
  • War

• I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Death
  • Wish

• I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Sure

• The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Why

• It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Time
  • Education
  • Present

• I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Important
  • Quality

• I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must craft themselves into the perfect specimens for college admission and often lose their authenticity, love of learning, and sense of self in the process.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Perfect
  • College
  • Process

• Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Society
  • Negative
  • Even

• Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

  

  Peter DeFazio
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Up
  • Work
  • Art

• It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Trying
  • Excited
  • Equipment