Herbie Mann Quotes

• 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

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

  Herbie Mann

• 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

• When you get cancer, it’s like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I’ve done so far is not as important as what I’m going to do now.

  Herbie Mann

• 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

• To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

  Herbie Mann

• Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they’re active and they talk about it.

  Herbie Mann

• 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

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

  Herbie Mann

• 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

• My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

  Herbie Mann

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

  Herbie Mann

• My ego is controlled enough that I don’t have to be the focus.

  Herbie Mann

• Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

  Herbie Mann

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

  Herbie Mann

• I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

  Herbie Mann

• 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 and their health in general.

  Herbie Mann

• I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it’s really me.

  Herbie Mann

• I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

  Herbie Mann

• I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

  Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann (25)

Birth:	16th April, 1930
Death:	1st July, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Flautist

About

Herbert Jay Solomon, known by his stage name Herbie Mann was an American jazz flautist. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarine, but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute. His most popular single was "Hijack", which was a Billboard No. 1 dance hit for three weeks in 1975. In 1959, following a State Department sponsored tour of Africa, he recorded Flautista!, an album of Afro-Cuban jazz. His albums list shown below: Memphis Underground, Push Push, Our Mann Flute, Stone Flute, Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty, Super Mann, Surprises, Memphis Two-Step, Mississippi Gambler, Bird in a Silver Cage, Today!, Sultry Serenade, and Hangout.

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