Culture Quote by Herbie Mann Download Open image “The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.” — Herbie Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Heritage Music
My records have done very well in Europe and I want Americans to like my music too. — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
My heritage has definitely shaped my music and my character in a lot of ways. — Ava Max Copy Share Image
The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing. — Lou Gramm Copy Share Image
The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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?… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
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… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image