American - Musician | April 16, 1930 - June 1, 2003
My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
Herbie Mann
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My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
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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.
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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.
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The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
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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.
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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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To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
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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.
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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.
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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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You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
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