Herbie Mann Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

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.

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.

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.

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

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.