All Herbie Mann Quotes
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.
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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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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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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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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.
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My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
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Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
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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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You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.
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If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.
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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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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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I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
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