Butch Hancock quote: "Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."

You've got a right to try to live the life you choose.
BUTCH HANCOCK

Prairie Home Companion.
BUTCH HANCOCK

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a ...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've...
TONY HANCOCK

I shall look forward to a pleasant time.
JOHN HANCOCK

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, alt...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
JOHN HANCOCK

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
HERBIE HANCOCK

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As so...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered ...
JOHN HANCOCK

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever m...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries,...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have...
HERBIE HANCOCK

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
JOHN HANCOCK

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I ha...
HERBIE HANCOCK

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really...
HERBIE HANCOCK

People (who are) there to watch should be in the stands.
BILL HANCOCK

This acquisition is a good fit between two quality firms. [It] broadens our capabilities in an impor...
BILL HANCOCK

I can tell you, ... that will not be a factor.
BILL HANCOCK

From what I remember about Des Moines and its hotels, ... (The metro) will do fine.
BILL HANCOCK

It's a huge organization that's trying to get a grip on its own problems.
BILL HANCOCK

For the Panama Canal a couple of years ago we did a balcony, since there is more to see and there we...
BILL HANCOCK

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.
TONY HANCOCK

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
HERBIE HANCOCK

One of the volunteers lived the next street over.
CATHY HANCOCK

We've had an outpouring of love.
CATHY HANCOCK

The Red Cross gave us $550 for clothes and $135 for food right away. I was surprised. I didn't expec...
CATHY HANCOCK

I'm just so grateful to anyone who has donated items and everyone who has given support.
CATHY HANCOCK

I've been surprised just with the strength of the Hitachi name. I thought I would have to mold it.
DAVID HANCOCK

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the a...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of...
HERBIE HANCOCK

You could never tell what was going on with Miles. You'd always leave the session not knowing if the...
HERBIE HANCOCK

There's Charlie Parker and there's Miles, there's Trane. I'm none of those guys, so why am I beating...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We are going to see a shift, ... where?more enterprises, such as automobile companies and the like a...
ELLEN HANCOCK

They were very happy and appreciative, ... Many of them are unable to get to Zavalla which had some ...
DAVID HANCOCK

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Eva...
HERBIE HANCOCK

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit&...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about lif...
HERBIE HANCOCK

He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Just like Coca-Cola, NYU is a brand. We're a dream school, the school of [TV series] Felicity, and w...
DAVE HANCOCK

People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is co...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Buddhism opened me up to seeing things from the standpoint of being a human being - looking at the p...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Musicians tend to limit themselves,
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's odd that invoking the possibility of alien influences should itself be a sign of madness. I...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peac...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipm...
HERBIE HANCOCK

These areas have been covered with wet snow that is now melting away, exposing it to mallards and ot...
ALAN HANCOCK

While 500 birds seems like a lot, in reality, it is insignificant to the mallard population.
ALAN HANCOCK

The pond where the ducks are dying is not necessarily the location where they are picking up the fun...
ALAN HANCOCK

The special elections are always important beyond the individual races, ... because they provide a s...
JOHN HANCOCK

Speed is the number one thing trucks can do, if they slow down every 10 miles per hour, they save a ...
JOHN HANCOCK

I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who w...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I agree with taking the time and respecting the great innovators of the past, but the word innovatio...
HERBIE HANCOCK

There's only one person named Herbie Hancock.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Grants Pass played real well, and we struggled against their triangle-and-two defense. We did not ha...
DAVE HANCOCK

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
HERBIE HANCOCK

On a human level, the garbage man is just as important as the teacher or a rock star or a president,...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK

'I've got to learn how to do this. That's my instrument, and he can do it. Why can't I?
HERBIE HANCOCK

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Over the years I've made decisions about things, especially music, and have been scoffed at and ridi...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours th...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The thing is, much of the way I look at music now, and its role as an aspect of culture, and creativ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's E...
HERBIE HANCOCK

But these days I never turn on radios, I always turn them off."
HERBIE HANCOCK

There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Still, when I finally left Miles in '68 and got my own band, it was a logical step; because anybody ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Not too many people my age really zeroed in on the blues. Most of the people that listened to it wer...
HERBIE HANCOCK

The fact that young hip-hop artists are searching for the jazz roots of their music acknowledges the...
HERBIE HANCOCK

That's one of the reasons for the title of the record, Future 2 Future, because here they are creati...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking h...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at hum...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I s...
HERBIE HANCOCK

So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We live on a planet that now must face, hopefully, a form of globalization inclusive of a vision to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I...
HERBIE HANCOCK

First of all I should explain that synthesizers themselves, I don't consider them instruments, they ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Other highlights? When I started practicing Buddhism 21 years ago. Marrying the woman I married 26 y...
HERBIE HANCOCK

When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism adds something, too,...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhis...
HERBIE HANCOCK

There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you...
HERBIE HANCOCK

When synthesizers came along, it was the first time I thought that the two things I loved, which wer...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to...
HERBIE HANCOCK

When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many o...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their exp...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
HERBIE HANCOCK

We're very excited about the foal. A lot of work goes into bringing a foal into the world, and it's ...
ARTHUR HANCOCK

There's been a lot of uproar around here today. It's been nice. It's good for the farm.
ARTHUR HANCOCK

She's popped around, jumped around. She's a very nice foal, and the mother's crazy about her. She ju...
ARTHUR HANCOCK

The third quarter was a rough quarter, but Troy is one of the best-coached teams that we play. They ...
AMY HANCOCK

I thought that this was the first game that we played this year where we showed our potential.
AMY HANCOCK

She had to make me feel comfortable with her decision making. I had to tone her down. As the season'...
ANN HANCOCK

We did a good job on her.
ANN HANCOCK

We had a tough night shooting and I think when the season started we expected to have a night like t...
ANN HANCOCK

I was a racer in the event last year and was happy with it. It was run off very well. Traffic contro...
NICK HANCOCK

One could imagine that a group of anthropologists and scientists sent off to study a previously unco...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

I would say the benefits are not just in the classroom, but in life. The number one benefit is worki...
MELISSA HANCOCK

Even during the major avant-garde period of jazz in the late '60s and early '70s, the songs usually ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

They didn't annex them, but now the other property has been annexed and these adverse things are hap...
JOHN HANCOCK

If it was a fight, they knocked us down a couple times that round and we did not respond.
DAVE HANCOCK

This shows that, despite the Democrats' rhetoric and money, they have been unable to gain ground.
JOHN HANCOCK

We are actually grateful with the results, and the positive movement in our direction. We feel we're...
JOHN HANCOCK

If this represents the start of an extended [dollar] slide, it may erode the attractiveness of dolla...
JOHN HANCOCK

a very poor grasp of the issues.
JOHN HANCOCK

I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with sati...
JOHN HANCOCK

It might have been somewhat derivative otherwise, and I'm not the kind of person who's satisfied wit...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each ot...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Even the things that are on the Plugged Nickel set. I don't know how we did some of that.
HERBIE HANCOCK

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people we...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We had single vision. We tried to get Trenton or Cam the ball. Other players had drives available an...
DAVE HANCOCK

There, I guess King George will be able to read that. [Remark on signing American Declaration of Ind...
JOHN HANCOCK

I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Jazz is a music that translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians bu...
HERBIE HANCOCK

If the July jobs report was bad news, at least it wasn't awful news,
JOHN HANCOCK

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Things like creating in the moment, being in the moment, trusting your instincts, not being afraid t...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I remember my very first recording. It was on a wire recorder, as the tape recording was only just o...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Although I had stopped listening to R&B, it still would move my soul.
HERBIE HANCOCK

In the face of sustained and growing competition, cinema has ceded its predominant revenue position ...
DAVID HANCOCK

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
HERBIE HANCOCK

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I think I was supposed to play jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK

I decided years ago that I wasn't interested in being a virtuoso of the piano.
HERBIE HANCOCK

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's possible (the first egg) broke because after they've been a little bit too old, they will actua...
DAVID HANCOCK

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at t...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It's hard to put this all together,
JOHN HANCOCK

A lot of the focus, at even the venues that support underground music, seems to be less on live musi...
JOHN HANCOCK

We're not desperate, we just want to get our head count up to our control level. I'd like to hire ab...
JOHN HANCOCK

I think, on balance, most Missourians agree with the approaches that the legislature and governor ha...
JOHN HANCOCK

In principle, rapid productivity should make wages rise, but it seems that until the job market tigh...
JOHN HANCOCK

These folks are scared to death.
JOHN HANCOCK

There's only so many priorities that you can fund. What you choose to target, you need to win.
JOHN HANCOCK

It's really hurting drivers because of the cost of fuel.
JOHN HANCOCK

The report is not quite as bad as it looks, but it's far from good news, with few signs of anything ...
JOHN HANCOCK

I didn't know much about this new electronic scene. I knew it was going on, but I hadn't really foll...
HERBIE HANCOCK

At Göbekli Tepe there is a creature, sculted in high-relief, identified by Klaus Schmidt as a beast...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

The Sabians were allowed to build a new Temple of the Moon God, and to continue their religious rite...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

Then I would watch him improvise, and I would be fascinated by what he was doing.
HERBIE HANCOCK

The same solution--that Easter Island was once part of a much larger landmass--would also explain an...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

I was on tour with Miles Davis, and we had a gig to play at a theater in Los Angeles in 1965. And th...
HERBIE HANCOCK

This is a case of Silicon Valley restructuring and repositioning once again.
RUSSELL HANCOCK

We are not there to sell any one type of boat over another. We are there to sell boating as a recrea...
JEFF HANCOCK

I think I heard the name Muddy Waters first, then John Lee Hooker.
HERBIE HANCOCK

When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking abo...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Because the voters are going to decide this issue one way or the other, I just don't think the candi...
JOHN HANCOCK

Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting ...
JOHN HANCOCK

The fact is that Congressman Blunt has a senior leadership position in the Congress of the United St...
JOHN HANCOCK

Figurines of Apkallus were buried in boxes in the foundation deposits in Mesopotamian buildings in o...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

Cainan (sometimes the name is spelled Kainam) was the son of Arpachsad: "And the son grew, and his f...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

Regardless of the fact that the express purpose of God's Deluge is to kill off most of mankind--apar...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

I've talked to (Coach Taylor) and he seems like a really cool guy, he's a good coach.
QUINTON HANCOCK

I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the ...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of di...
HERBIE HANCOCK

A school has a different status. There are only about seven schools of dance in the country, and it ...
JORY HANCOCK

It was put together in layers. The disadvantage is that there isn't really any interaction together,...
HERBIE HANCOCK

Aside from that, what was more in our heads when we made the new album is the concept of forging thr...
HERBIE HANCOCK

This was put together not just as a series of notes and chords. If I depended on what anyone else th...
HERBIE HANCOCK

It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes em...
SHEILA HANCOCK

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We're doing a much more thorough job of reviewing the customers than we had in the earlier days.
ELLEN HANCOCK

We think we're in a far better place to serve all aspects of the market, including enterprise comput...
ELLEN HANCOCK

This is going to be a business where there is tremendous growth, ... We are seeing constant demand a...
ELLEN HANCOCK

More than ever, Apple can make a difference in any organization, including an enterprise situation w...
ELLEN HANCOCK

Virtually all applications will run on Rhapsody. Last week, at a developer conference, more than 400...
ELLEN HANCOCK

We think we're in a far better place to serve all aspects of the market, including enterprise comput...
ELLEN HANCOCK

We wanted Logan to get it on the run because he is quick and then Hayward-Mayhew set a screen for Ne...
DAVE HANCOCK

We've got to handle their pressure, we can't turn the ball over. We have to dictate the tempo of the...
DAVE HANCOCK

We don't get too much into that. We're just really trying to break down our opponents' strengths and...
DAVE HANCOCK

It definitely helped us to be in those types of games. We learned to execute and learned how to give...
DAVE HANCOCK

That's been the story of our season. These kids deserve so much.
DAVE HANCOCK

Cam made good decisions with the ball. He has really stepped up his play.
DAVE HANCOCK

Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter wher...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

And I just practiced on it and practiced on it. I found a lot of little things about details, about ...
HERBIE HANCOCK

We are very pleased to have the benefit of Mark's expertise on our Board. Mark's strong technology b...
DAVID HANCOCK

It is hard to not have the minister you're used to to lean against. But at the same time, I'm ground...
DAVID HANCOCK

Why Dana and why now,
DAVID HANCOCK

When Bob sets his mind to doing something, it gets done.
DAVID HANCOCK

What I like about Bob is that he's given his whole life to the city. That's a fact,
DAVID HANCOCK

Leaving aside the exceptional nature of the 1930s, we can see a peak in the film industry's fortunes...
DAVID HANCOCK

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

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Butch Hancock

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

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