Herbie Brennan quote: "He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.'<br />Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping it wasn't true. Have you any idea of the implications?'<br />'He was mistreating it!' Pyrgus protested.<br />'Of course he was mistreating it. This is Black Hairstreak we're talking about. He mistreats his own mother. I don't suppose you stole her as well?"

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I h...
HERBIE MANN

Aside from that, what was more in our heads when we made the new album is the concept of forging thr...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessar...
HERBIE MANN

Jazz is a music that translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians bu...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
HERBIE HANCOCK

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit&...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each ot...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Eva...
HERBIE HANCOCK

There's only one person named Herbie Hancock.
HERBIE HANCOCK

'I've got to learn how to do this. That's my instrument, and he can do it. Why can't I?
HERBIE HANCOCK

I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours th...
HERBIE HANCOCK

But these days I never turn on radios, I always turn them off."
HERBIE HANCOCK

Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Buddhism opened me up to seeing things from the standpoint of being a human being - looking at the p...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I remember my very first recording. It was on a wire recorder, as the tape recording was only just o...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Things like creating in the moment, being in the moment, trusting your instincts, not being afraid t...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really...
HERBIE HANCOCK

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at hum...
HERBIE HANCOCK

When synthesizers came along, it was the first time I thought that the two things I loved, which wer...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Other highlights? When I started practicing Buddhism 21 years ago. Marrying the woman I married 26 y...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipm...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the a...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It might have been somewhat derivative otherwise, and I'm not the kind of person who's satisfied wit...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It was put together in layers. The disadvantage is that there isn't really any interaction together,...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As so...
HERBIE HANCOCK

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

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I ha...
HERBIE HANCOCK

There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you...
HERBIE HANCOCK

There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

That's one of the reasons for the title of the record, Future 2 Future, because here they are creati...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking h...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I s...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I didn't know much about this new electronic scene. I knew it was going on, but I hadn't really foll...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I decided years ago that I wasn't interested in being a virtuoso of the piano.
HERBIE HANCOCK

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many o...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their exp...
HERBIE HANCOCK

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to mov...
HERBIE MANN

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK

I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries,...
HERBIE HANCOCK

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
HERBIE HANCOCK

I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's re...
HERBIE MANN

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the a...
HERBIE HANCOCK

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
HERBIE HANCOCK

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

You could never tell what was going on with Miles. You'd always leave the session not knowing if the...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
HERBIE HANCOCK

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of...
HERBIE HANCOCK

He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.
HERBIE HANCOCK

I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who w...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of di...
HERBIE HANCOCK

This was put together not just as a series of notes and chords. If I depended on what anyone else th...
HERBIE HANCOCK

When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Even during the major avant-garde period of jazz in the late '60s and early '70s, the songs usually ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Not too many people my age really zeroed in on the blues. Most of the people that listened to it wer...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The fact that young hip-hop artists are searching for the jazz roots of their music acknowledges the...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I...
HERBIE HANCOCK

First of all I should explain that synthesizers themselves, I don't consider them instruments, they ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to...
HERBIE HANCOCK

When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism adds something, too,...
HERBIE HANCOCK

And I just practiced on it and practiced on it. I found a lot of little things about details, about ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Jazz is about being in the moment.
HERBIE HANCOCK

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

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, alt...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Jazz is a music that translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians bu...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I think I heard the name Muddy Waters first, then John Lee Hooker.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Musicians tend to limit themselves,
HERBIE HANCOCK

When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking abo...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I think I was supposed to play jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Although I had stopped listening to R&B, it still would move my soul.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Even the things that are on the Plugged Nickel set. I don't know how we did some of that.
HERBIE HANCOCK

There's Charlie Parker and there's Miles, there's Trane. I'm none of those guys, so why am I beating...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about lif...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
HERBIE HANCOCK

I agree with taking the time and respecting the great innovators of the past, but the word innovatio...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
HERBIE HANCOCK

On a human level, the garbage man is just as important as the teacher or a rock star or a president,...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Over the years I've made decisions about things, especially music, and have been scoffed at and ridi...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The thing is, much of the way I look at music now, and its role as an aspect of culture, and creativ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's E...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Still, when I finally left Miles in '68 and got my own band, it was a logical step; because anybody ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We live on a planet that now must face, hopefully, a form of globalization inclusive of a vision to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhis...
HERBIE HANCOCK

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peac...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I was on tour with Miles Davis, and we had a gig to play at a theater in Los Angeles in 1965. And th...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Then I would watch him improvise, and I would be fascinated by what he was doing.
HERBIE HANCOCK

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at t...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with the...
BRENNAN MANNING

I think most of the choke points stayed pretty clear this time around (in yesterday's rains). We kno...
BILL BRENNAN

Near as we can tell, there's no sensitive or confidential sort of information contained on the compu...
BILL BRENNAN

We are working with the Honolulu Police Department and the facility of building maintenance. We will...
BILL BRENNAN

We've trimmed back some of the landscaping along both sides of the building so would-be burglars cou...
BILL BRENNAN

A neighbor called them and told them their house was on fire.
BOB BRENNAN

A few of those wagons, if I had a place to move them to I would, but if I start saving stuff I'd hav...
BOB BRENNAN

When I first did it, coach Paterno talked to me about it and made sure that mentally I was OK.
BRENNAN COAKLEY

His backstroke was a picture-perfect race. He's typically just as strong in the back half of the rac...
BRENNAN CLEVELAND

We are progressing. I am excited about the fact that we are improving every match. What else can you...
BRENNAN BROWN

I think it will be a very competitive regional because not much separates the one, two, three and fo...
BRENNAN BROWN

It came down to who is going to play the big points better. Our girls found a way to elevate their p...
BRENNAN BROWN

I haven't slept much in the past few days because I think we are all pretty excited to get out there...
BRENNAN BROWN

It was a lot of fun. There were a number of top ranked teams there.
BRENNAN BROWN

Our No.1 doubles team is a team all our other doubles teams look up to. They are playing at a very h...
BRENNAN BROWN

People all across the country realize this is going to be a hard-fought and very close election. Gov...
BRENNAN BILBERRY

It's surreal feeling, walking in the parade of champions. It was just a phenomenal experience. It de...
BRENNAN WHITMAN

I felt great going into that match. I thought I wrestled the best match I could. He's a pretty good....
BRENNAN WHITMAN

I think just having more mat time has helped me. You're always in a match so you just can never give...
BRENNAN WHITMAN

I don't think we were necessarily tested for our style against Western Michigan because of all those...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

We weren't going to get to their quarterback, so it became all about getting our hands up in his fac...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

Two gap is not an easy thing and it's not a sexy thing either. But for the hard-nosed guy, it's perf...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

The effect is not really all tied up with genes, although it does indicate that much of the protecti...
PAUL BRENNAN

I haven't yet heard of a hookah lounge opening and going out of business.
BRENNAN APPEL

Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love....
BRENNAN MANNING

We're concerned for the safety of the public, especially motorists in that area.
BILL BRENNAN

...the institutional church, which exists to serve the people of God, is never to be confused with t...
BRENNAN MANNING

It's a bummer when it rains like that. It makes the balls wet and kind of slippery. Everything is mo...
COLT BRENNAN

When the athletes come to the Olympic Games, it is rarely about the muscles anymore. It is all about...
CHRISTINE BRENNAN

confirms our belief that the rangers' actions were justified.
DAVE BRENNAN

That's what we want to be, we want to be ... different. I don't know if better is the right word ......
DAN BRENNAN

I didn't really think I'd be wrestling him (Lucero) in the finals. We are pretty good friends. I was...
ERIC BRENNAN

We were very excited to see him run the ball so well. He shouldered the load for us in a game that w...
SEAN BRENNAN

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, ou...
BRENNAN MANNING

Nowhere in the New Testament is the privileged position of turkeys, nobodies, and marginal people on...
BRENNAN MANNING

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or ...
BRENNAN MANNING

It was very similar to the game we had last week. We got a big lead and they came back hard. They're...
JOE BRENNAN

We've talked about it,
BARBARA BRENNAN

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true s...
BRENNAN MANNING

Just because the Democratic machine in a particular borough supports a candidate, they still may not...
JAMES BRENNAN

We're trying to get everyone from the community. I'm hoping it'll be more multicultural.
K.C. BRENNAN

We hire firms that manage pieces of the funds independent of one another. They're not really sharing...
JOE BRENNAN

Saturday night is not going to be much fun.
LUCY BRENNAN

Prudence was waiting for us when we arrived, and I saw her visibly wince as I pulled the Fiesta into...
M.L. BRENNAN

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with th...
BRENNAN MANNING

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we ...
BRENNAN MANNING

You look at the lights, and it seems like everything is green, and then it turns to a burnt orange. ...
BRENNAN GARR

I believe I was a part of it because I was there every day. It was just a great feeling. We were dow...
BRENNAN COAKLEY

He's got a lot more speed in him than that. He's not fully rested and he's not shaved down. I feel h...
BRENNAN CLEVELAND

We are very pleased with the way Ben closed out his conference career. Ben has always been an extrem...
BRENNAN CLEVELAND

If Brian Bilbray had an ounce of integrity, he would call for this ad to be taken off the air. What ...
BRENNAN BILBERRY

We know they're familiar with this game and we know they're going to run the ball as much as possibl...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

They work, at least for me they do. The ball seems a lot brighter to me.
BRENNAN GARR

As a kid, it was awesome to see him. He'd never scream, just watch the game and talk to you later ab...
BRIAN BRENNAN

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

Donald Gray expre...
BRENNAN MANNING

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.
WILLIAM BRENNAN

They made off with four computers and some petty cash. Some money that was left around to buy stamps...
BILL BRENNAN

This program will allow all our customers, including our low-income customers, to enjoy the benefits...
BOB BRENNAN

I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you sta...
MARIE BRENNAN

My Aunt Ella and my mom have informed me that we are going to rebuild. And because they are the matr...
BRAD BRENNAN

That facility is in dire need of some cosmetic and functional upgrades.
KEN BRENNAN

Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people sta...
BRENNAN MANNING

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better ...
BRENNAN MANNING

A blind man sees not with his eyes, but with his heart. A deaf man hears with his soul and mind, not...
BRENNAN MASTOUS

At one point in the 'Onyx Court' series, I think during 'In Ashes Lie', I suggested ...
MARIE BRENNAN

The Importance of Being Foolish; How to Think Like Jesus
BRENNAN MANNING

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting...
BRENNAN MANNING

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illu...
BRENNAN MANNING

They're a good team, a scrappy team. They always find a way to get back in games. Their hustle and s...
JOE BRENNAN

Today the danger of the pro-life position, which I vigorously support, is that it can be frightening...
BRENNAN MANNING

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives u...
BRENNAN MANNING

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to ...
BRENNAN MANNING

We got very passive offensively, so we asked them to get more aggressive. Danielle got aggressive in...
TOM BRENNAN

I'm extremely pleased and gratified. I worked extremely hard.
TOM BRENNAN

The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

Fire of love, crazy over what You have...
BRENNAN MANNING

Nobody said it's easy being a walk-on. Maybe next time I'll park next to coach (June) Jones. I don't...
COLT BRENNAN

We've got guys who can fill in, it's just getting the guys in there and getting them reps and gettin...
COLT BRENNAN

I thought we had lost the game. They were running out the clock with just over one minute remaining ...
SEAN BRENNAN

I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in ...
BRENNAN MANNING

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot ass...
BRENNAN MANNING

Anyone who might assert that our numbers were intentionally skewed is mistaken.
JOHN BRENNAN

He's always been a good shooter. Nobody knew about him and I'm sure these guys didn't. I knew they w...
RICH BRENNAN

One thing we do know: We don’t comprehend the love of Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING

If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by t...
BRENNAN MANNING

The spiritual future of ragamuffins consists not in disavowing that we are sinners but in accepting ...
BRENNAN MANNING

And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman...
BRENNAN MANNING

For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and rec...
BRENNAN MANNING

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any c...
BRENNAN MANNING

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and ac...
BRENNAN MANNING

We needed reassurance. I needed reassurance.
JACK BRENNAN

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba’...
BRENNAN MANNING

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...
BRENNAN MANNING

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or som...
BRENNAN MANNING

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