Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

Herbie Hancock

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• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
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• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• 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

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Best
  • Year
  • Been

• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Will
  • Policy
  • Kings

• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  

  Larry David
  • Long
  • Service
  • Army

• It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • See
  • Place

• I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Know
  • Responsibility
  • Fans

• We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Food
  • Change
  • Water

• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Myself
  • Difference

• Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Important
  • Science
  • Amazing

• I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • See
  • Nations
  • United Nations

• You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Cold
  • Snow

• Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Daily

• All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Political
  • Action
  • Wish

• I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Actor
  • Celebrity
  • I Hate

• My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

  

  Gerhard Richter
  • Idea
  • Find
  • Occur

• Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Man
  • Eyes
  • Vision

• My visions and fantasies are pretty standard. The only difference is I got to do it, while most of us haven't. Beyond that, I'm a pretty standard guy. Give me a gal with a sense of humor, acidic wit, who's read a few books and has a body like a Swedish speed skater, and I'm quite content.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Vision
  • Standard
  • Fantasies

• At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Vision
  • Musician
  • Jazz