I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
From Herbie Mann
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
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.
The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
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.
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.
To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
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