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Herbie Hancock Quotes

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1940

Topics

People Doing Jazz Things One Thing

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

Love Good Me Always Inspired Brown

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

Strong Worry Body I Can Swing More

What I'm trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you go by the emotion of the song, it's almost like stepping into a city. Cities have certain customs and rules and laws you can break, and that's what I was doing.

City Song Doing You Body Rules

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Become Safe Every Sterile Compulsion

In September 2008, the overleveraged and undermanaged U.S. banking system suffered a terrifying collapse. And that, in turn, nearly took the whole country down.

Down Country Turn System Banking

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

Beauty Power Value Conflict Society

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

Jonathan Anderson

Amazing Learn Meet Everyone Another

I'm trying to just go with the flow and learn from the people around me.

Christina Ricci

People Me Learn Trying Go Flow

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

School High School Kid High Piano

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Fear Way Different Different Way

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Education Think Better Go Want Kids

On Broadway, you are working with some incredible people, and they have great reasons for doing things the way they do.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Great People Doing You Way Things

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