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.
Herbie Mann

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
Herbie Mann

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.
Herbie Mann

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.
Herbie Mann

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
Herbie Mann

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

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.
Herbie Mann