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.
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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
To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
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My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
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The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
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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.
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My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
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