Critics Quote by Herbie Mann Download Open image “To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.” — Herbie Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Critics Jazz Kenny
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I come from… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call… — Duke Ellington 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
The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian. — 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
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I`m focusing on are my own policy… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
