Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

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• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Always

• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • True
  • End
  • Honor

• All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Form

• The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Believe
  • Always
  • Risk

• If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Laughing
  • Ifs

• The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.

  

  Jean Gabin
  • Deep
  • Theater
  • Too Deep

• Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Belief
  • Disagree

• My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Achievement
  • Skills
  • Self-efficacy

• Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Technology
  • Eyes
  • Reflect

• Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Rest
  • Jesus
  • Sleep

• I think this is an opportunity for me to use my talents to help the people of Pennsylvania. I think we can be much better than we have been in recent years. I believe Pennsylvania needs leadership from outside the box.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Love
  • Marriage

• . . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Death

• Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Evil

• How I was raised was, there were no rules - nothing like that. If I wanted to take a drug because I was in school and everybody was doing it, I could go to my parents and say, "I really want to try this." And they'd say, "If you do this, O.K., but this is what can happen to you..." They'd say, "Don't get it in the streets, because it could be really bad and make you freak out. Don't take it in a crowded place, because you'll panic."

  

  Winona Ryder
  • School
  • Parents
  • Drug

• I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • World
  • Change

• When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Ideas
  • Actors
  • Able

• The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Values
  • Able
  • Notes