Quotes by Herbie Mann - Page 1

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Critics
Jazz
Kenny
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By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.
Herbie Mann / Musician
By The Time
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You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Music
Jazz
Play
Blues
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I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Brooklyn
Raised
Years
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Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Bad Things
Being Selfish
Selfish
Stubborn
Bad Thing
Helped
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My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
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Ego
Enough
Focus
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Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.
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Music
Opportunity
Play
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My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
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Father
Mother
Romania
Russia
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If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.
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Music
House
Play
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If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.
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Inspiration
Jazz
People
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If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
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Music
Jazz
Sand
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Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
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Great Opportunity
Love Music Great
Turned
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I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
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Sand
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The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Heritage
Hungarians
Hungarian
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Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
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Being Selfish
Mean
Sacrifice
Selfish
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I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Brazilian Music
First Time
Time Music Me
Brazilian
Finally
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You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.
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Concerned
Ifs
Nobody Else
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One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Mistake
Needs
Organize
Records
Advantages
Your Own Need
Mistakes
Contract
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My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Daughter
Brooklyn
California
Drummer
Mother
Moving
Oldest Son
Son
Daughters
Oldest
Youngest
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For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Brazilian Music
Bubbles
Just One
Melody
Perfect
Play
Rhythm
Style
Music Me Style
Brazilian
Mix
Pick
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I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Men
Cancer
Foundation
Prostate
Aware
Formed
Raise
Recently
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Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.
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Age
Band
Wine
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When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Cancer
Important
Looks
Life Time Done
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I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Central Park
Guitar
One Day
Play
Album
Central
Park
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What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Atmosphere
Giving
Interesting
Play
Produce
Invest
Hire
Musicians
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Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.
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Active
Aids
Breast Cancer
Cancer
Gay
Gay Community
Thinking
Treatment
Strides
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The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Technology
Medicine
Positively
Reality
Thinking
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As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.
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Crafts
Lists
Thinking
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But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Cancer
Mean
Paranoia
People
Shock
Ultimate
Crying
Initial
Positive Way
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Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945.
Herbie Mann / Musician
Soup
Spices
Taste
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