49 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.