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Top 25 Herbie Mann Quotes (2025 Update)

Herbie Mann Quote: “Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.”

1. “Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.”

2. “If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “You don’t have to live the blues to play the blues.”

3. “You don’t have to live the blues to play the blues.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “You have to be concerned with yourself because if you’re not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.”

5. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “If you’re in jazz and more than ten people like you, you’re labeled commercial.”

6. “If you’re in jazz and more than ten people like you, you’re labeled commercial.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice.”

7. “Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.”

12. “For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “My father’s father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.”

15. “My father’s father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.”

17. “Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “The music we’re playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.”

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

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Herbie Mann Quote: “My ego is controlled enough that I don’t have to be the focus.”

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

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.”

23. “To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.”

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “If you want to play somebody’s music, you’d better go into his house.”

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

— Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quote: “I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.”

25. “I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.”

— Herbie Mann

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