Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Roles

• As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Child

• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Mind
  • Personality

• My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Father
  • House
  • Death

• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Children
  • Why
  • Still

• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • American
  • Together
  • Violence

• The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Desire

• Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Son
  • Grow

• I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Game
  • Teaching
  • Coaching

• Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Power
  • Change
  • Wishes

• Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kids
  • See
  • Said

• If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • City
  • Yourself
  • Vegas

• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Creative
  • Building
  • Aim

• My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Life
  • May
  • Earth

• I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Want
  • Thought

• An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Evil
  • Suffering
  • Movement

• Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Free
  • Everyday
  • Morality

• When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

  

  Lara St. John
  • People
  • You
  • Attention

• I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.

  

  Daniele Bolelli
  • Enough
  • Realizing
  • Laughing

• Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Enough
  • Influence
  • Jazz