Herbie Mann Citas

• You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

  Herbie Mann

  Música, Jugar, Jazz

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• Me había sentado un día en Central Park con Bonnie y Delaney, y Duane estaba tocando con ellos, así que le pregunté si quería trabajar en un álbum. Nunca tuviste que decirle cómo tocar la guitarra.

  Herbie Mann

  Guitar, Play, Central Park

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• Cuando enfermas de cáncer, es como si realmente llegara el momento de analizar lo que ha sido y es tu vida, y decidí que todo lo que he hecho hasta ahora no es tan importante como lo que voy a hacer ahora.

  Herbie Mann

  Cancer, Important, Looks

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• Mi ego está lo suficientemente controlado como para no tener que ser el centro de atención.

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  Focus, Ego, Enough

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• If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.

  Herbie Mann

  Inspiration, People, Jazz

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• Para mí, la música brasileña es la mezcla perfecta de melodía y ritmo. Simplemente burbujea rítmicamente. Si tuviera que elegir un solo estilo musical, sería el brasileño.

  Herbie Mann

  Play, Perfect, Style

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

  Herbie Mann

  Selfish, Stubborn, Bad Things

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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.

  Herbie Mann

  Technology, Reality, Thinking

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• Me crié en Brooklyn y viví allí 59 años.

  Herbie Mann

  Years, Brooklyn, Raised

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

  Herbie Mann

  Selfish, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Piensen en ello: Fíjate en los avances en concienciación, tratamiento y pruebas que han tenido las mujeres con el cáncer de mama, que ha tenido la comunidad gay con el SIDA, porque son activos y hablan de ello.

  Herbie Mann

  Cancer, Gay, Thinking

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• Recientemente he creado una fundación para concienciar sobre el cáncer de próstata. Creo que es muy necesario que los hombres sean más conscientes del cáncer de próstata y de su salud en general.

  Herbie Mann

  Cancer, Men, Foundation

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• Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Opportunity, Play

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• Mi hijo menor, que ahora es el batería de mi grupo, vive en Brooklyn. Mi hijo mayor está a punto de mudarse a California, y mis hijas están fuera de la ciudad.

  Herbie Mann

  Daughter, Mother, Moving

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• The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

  Herbie Mann

  Heritage, Hungarians

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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.

  Herbie Mann

  Play, Giving, Interesting

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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.

  Herbie Mann

  Concerned, Ifs

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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.

  Herbie Mann

  Wine, Age, Band

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• To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

  Herbie Mann

  Jazz, Critics, Kenny

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• As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.

  Herbie Mann

  Thinking, Crafts, Lists

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• Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945.

  Herbie Mann

  Spices, Soup, Taste

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• Pero cuando tuve cáncer por primera vez, tras el shock inicial y el miedo y la paranoia y el llanto y todo lo que conlleva el cáncer -esa palabra significa para la mayoría de la gente muerte definitiva-, decidí ver qué podía hacer para tomar ese aspecto negativo y utilizarlo de forma positiva.

  Herbie Mann

  Cancer, Mean, People

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• If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Play, House

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• My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

  Herbie Mann

  Mother, Father, Russia

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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.

  Herbie Mann

  Mistake, Needs, Records

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