Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

Herbie Hancock

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • You
  • Down

• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Because

• I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Focus
  • Things
  • Changed

• Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Free
  • Freedom

• When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Knows
  • New

• The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil

• Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Blessed

• A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Remember
  • War

• The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Fear
  • Hate

• When once-which every body must be-you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted your own innocence of heart. Experience will prove the depravity of mankind, and the conviction of it only serves to create distrust, suspicion-caution-and sometimes causelessly.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Experience

• We also call upon our Saudi neighbors to let us pursue a democratic path....In many cases, Yemeni tribal leaders and other prominent individuals have received far more generous aid payments from Riyadh than from the Yemeni government...Saudi interference in Yemen is also motivated by a fear that the Arab Spring...might soon reach Riyadh

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Fear
  • Path
  • Spring

• There's a beautiful thing about experience. There's a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there's also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Road

• I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

  

  David Farr

• Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Heart
  • Control

• Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it the most.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Family
  • Love
  • Deserve

• I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

  

  Jemima Kirke
  • Pride

• Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Judge

• From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.

  

  William Styron
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Criticism
  • Criticize