Nat King Cole Quotes

"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking." - Nat King Cole [while dying from lung cancer]

Herbie Mann Quotes

"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

Herbie Mann Quotes

"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." - Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quotes

"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." - Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Quotes

"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