Quotes by Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann

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.

Crafts

Lists

Thinking

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice.

Mean

Sacrifice

Selfish

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Bad Things

Selfish

Stubborn

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.

Cancer

Mean

People

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.

Perfect

Play

Style

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.

Central Park

Guitar

Play

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.

Cancer

Foundation

Men

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

Brooklyn

Raised

Years

If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

Jazz

Music

Sand

If you want to play somebody’s music, you’d better go into his house.

House

Music

Play

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Age

Bad Things

Band

Brooklyn

Cancer

Central Park

Concerned

Crafts

Critics

Daughter

Ego

Enough

Father

Focus

Foundation

Gay

Giving

Guitar

Heritage

House

Hungarians

Ifs

Important

Inspiration

Interesting

Jazz

Kenny

Lists

Looks

Mean

Men

Mistake

Mother

Moving

Music

Needs

Opportunity

People

Perfect

Play

Raised

Reality

Records

Russia

Sacrifice

Sand

Selfish

Soup

Spices

Stubborn

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Quotes by Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann

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.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

If you want to play somebody’s music, you’d better go into his house.

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