Herbie Mann Quotes

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

Herbie Mann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 16, 1930 - June 1, 2003

Topics

TimeYourselfYouNobodyGoingElse

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Johannes Tauler

GodYourselfHumilityJudgeYouOwn

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

YouWantJustSomebodySongsTen

The United States is now harbouring Luis Posada Carriles. His continued freedom mocks victims of terrorism everywhere. It also shows how heavily the 'war on terror' is overlaid with politics and hypocrisy.

Stephen Kinzer

FreedomPoliticsWarHypocrisyNow

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

Stanley Schmidt

NaturePeopleThinkEarthBeast

The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress or the states to adopt same-sex marriage laws nor does it forbid them from maintaining traditional marriage laws.

Trent Franks

MarriageTimeConstitutionCongress

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Robert Winston

ManDeepAggressionModernKinds

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Jawaharlal Nehru

BestEfficiencyAdvantageHighest

I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.

Dick Dale

MusicPainPeopleFeetGuitarMove

I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.

Colm Toibin

LiveMountainsWarPlaceVillage

People are always ready to pull you down.

Arjun Kapoor

PeopleYouDownReadyAlwaysPull

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

LifeDayFaceIdiotYouLiving

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

William Hamilton Maxwell

I AmSilentAttentiveListenerAm

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