top of page
"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Years quotes

"I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide."

"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."

"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

"The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive."

"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."

"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."

"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."
Explore more quotes by Herbie Mann

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
bottom of page