Top 100 Quotes About Hancock
#1. If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio ... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
Phil Collins
#2. John Lee Hancock is someone that I had admired from afar. I think he is a wonderful director ... in the tradition I would say both of Clint Eastwood and Frank Capra.
Alison Owen
#3. There was no doubt about it: Alexandra Finch Hancock was imposing from any angle; her behind was no less uncompromising than her front.
Harper Lee
#4. To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.
Herbie Hancock
#5. Maxine Hancock says we should think of ourselves as the servant leaders of our homes. I think by the addition of the word leaders, she implies that while we serve we should also command respect.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#6. I think people have learned that Herbie Hancock can be defined as someone that you won't be able to figure out what he's going to do next. The sky is the limit as far as I'm concerned.
Herbie Hancock
#7. I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of 'Glee.' I also love jazz greats like Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock.
Mark Salling
#8. When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
Paul Merton
#9. Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.
Finn Jones
#10. Mae West, a famous vaudeville actress, once said, "A man's kiss is his signature." I grinned to myself. If that was true, then Ren's signature was the John Hancock of kisses.
Colleen Houck
#11. The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
Natalie Cole
#12. You can't control my feelings, Hancock. You control my fate, yes. My ultimate destiny. My life even. But you can't control me.
Maya Banks
#13. I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
Donald Byrd
#14. Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
A.A. Gill
#15. It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.
Ennio Morricone
#16. Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.
Woody Allen
#17. How close you came to dying? I did." "Maybe this is why I didn't." Hancock regarded Gamache. "Are you saying you were spared to stop me from jumping over the cliff?
Louise Penny
#18. World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
Herbie Hancock
#19. I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
Herbie Hancock
#20. You might not be able to do the impossible, but do the unimaginable.
Rita M. Hancock
#21. Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.
Herbie Hancock
#23. Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.
Kevin Hancock
#25. In Lubbock, we grew up with two main things: God loves you and he's gonna send you to hell, and that sex is bad and dirty and nasty and awful and you should save it for the one you love.
Butch Hancock
#26. Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
John Hancock
#28. I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio, can talk with the director and get his or her vision and help exact that. I think it just gives you more tools.
John Lee Hancock
#29. I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
Herbie Hancock
#30. I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.
John Lee Hancock
#31. I made the exhilarating discovery that study, when it is pursued with ardour and discipline, becomes creation.
W.K. Hancock
#32. Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.
Tony Hancock
#33. One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
Herbie Hancock
#34. You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Herbie Hancock
#36. It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
Herbie Hancock
#37. I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
Herbie Hancock
#38. You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.
John Lee Hancock
#39. Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
Herbie Hancock
#40. I think he'll have to lose you Lucy. He won't know what he can do without you until he's without you.
Ka Hancock
#41. The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the word "drug" not connected to the word "abuse." The notion of a responsible use of drugs is written out in the language of our culture.
Graham Hancock
#43. If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.
Herbie Hancock
#44. I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
Herbie Hancock
#45. I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment.
Herbie Hancock
#46. I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.
John Lee Hancock
#48. When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
Herbie Hancock
#49. I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.
Graham Hancock
#50. I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.
Butch Hancock
#51. It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.
Herbie Hancock
#52. Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
Herbie Hancock
#53. But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.
Herbie Hancock
#54. When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
Herbie Hancock
#55. I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again and then that's the right time to do it again.
John Lee Hancock
#56. One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.
Herbie Hancock
#57. One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
Herbie Hancock
#58. That all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.
John Hancock
#59. People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
Herbie Hancock
#60. I'm sure that sounds odd, but looking at me and seeing me are two very different things.
Ka Hancock
#61. In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
Herbie Hancock
#62. He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.
Tony Hancock
#63. We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.
Herbie Hancock
#64. Give money to universities - that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.
Lang Hancock
#65. There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
John Hancock
#66. Broken glass. At the moment, we were barefoot and dancing over a sea of it. But as true as that was, Mickey knew I would dance with him forever if I could, bloody feet and all.
Ka Hancock
#67. Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
Herbie Hancock
#68. Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.
Herbie Hancock
#69. When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal.
Tony Hancock
#70. People who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.
John Hancock
#71. I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer
and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
Herbie Hancock
#72. Mindful that it's running out, I am determined to have the time of my life.
Sheila Hancock
#73. Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
Herbie Hancock
#74. In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.
Herbie Hancock
#75. I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.
Graham Hancock
#76. I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.
Herbie Hancock
#77. There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!
John Hancock
#78. Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.
Richard Hancock
#79. Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it
John Hancock
#80. Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.
John Hancock
#81. One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
Herbie Hancock
#82. When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.
Nick Hancock
#83. And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.
Tony Hancock
#84. A meaningful experience is a glass of wine. It needs to breathe and open up; it can only be fully appreciated when you return to it later.
Noelle Hancock
#85. I wonder where she came from,
I wonder where she's gotta go.
Who's to say she's single
and who's to say she's on her own ...
Girls like that don't sleep alone
Herbie Hancock
#86. The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
Herbie Hancock
#87. The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
Herbie Hancock
#88. One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
Herbie Hancock
#89. A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.
Karen Hancock
#90. The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.
Herbie Hancock
#91. Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
Herbie Hancock
#93. Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
Herbie Hancock
#95. My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.
Sheila Hancock
#96. I'm somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.
Graham Hancock
#98. The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
Herbie Hancock
#99. Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
Herbie Hancock
#100. The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.
John Hancock
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