Herbie Mann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
-- Herbie Mann

#Music #Play #Blues Music
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

#Cancer #Important #Looks
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
-- Herbie Mann

#Selfish #Mean #Sacrifice
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

#Technology #Reality #Thinking
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
-- Herbie Mann

#Years #Brooklyn #Raised
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

#Play #Perfect #Style
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

#Mistake #Needs #Records
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
-- Herbie Mann

#Mother #Father #Russia
If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.
-- Herbie Mann

#People #Jazz #Like You
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.
-- Herbie Mann

#Cancer #Gay #Thinking
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

#Cancer #Men #Foundation
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

#Cancer #Mean #People
My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
-- Herbie Mann

#Focus #Ego #Enough
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

#Daughter #Mother #Moving
If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
-- Herbie Mann

#Music #Sand #Kicks
If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.
-- Herbie Mann

#Music #Play #House
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.
-- Herbie Mann

#Music #Opportunity #Play
Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.
-- Herbie Mann

#Selfish #Stubborn #Selfishness
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

#Guitar #Play #Central Park

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