Herbie Hancock Quotes

A method that doesn't use what you know. It's just pure, raw emotion.
Herbie Hancock

Actually, African Americans I think are completely now all mixed.
Herbie Hancock

And I don't always talk about music, and I don't always play music, and I don't always think about music.
Herbie Hancock

And I loved it, I loved it! I wanted to be part of the newer stuff.
Herbie Hancock

And if I don't express that, then what's my life worth?
Herbie Hancock

And that was fascinating, because you could do something different every time.
Herbie Hancock

At first I sounded like any stiff classical musician, trying to play that stuff.
Herbie Hancock

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
Herbie Hancock

But I can't name a specific synthesizer that is my favorite.
Herbie Hancock

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
Herbie Hancock

But if I'm banging my head against a wall because I can't come up with any ideas, that's not so much fun.
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But it's all part of the humanistic approach. Humanism amid the machines, you know?
Herbie Hancock

But these days I never turn on radios, I always turn them off.
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But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.
Herbie Hancock

By contrast, wisdom captivates people's hearts and has the power to open a new age.
Herbie Hancock

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
Herbie Hancock

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
Herbie Hancock

Even the things that are on the Plugged Nickel set. I don't know how we did some of that.
Herbie Hancock

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
Herbie Hancock

He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.
Herbie Hancock

I actually own Final Cut Pro, which is software for editing video, and Premiere from Adobe, I have that.
Herbie Hancock

I decided years ago that I wasn't interested in being a virtuoso of the piano.
Herbie Hancock

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
Herbie Hancock

I get bored easily, but later I learned that it is OK to do something that others have done.
Herbie Hancock

I have available to me all of the tools of my musical experience.
Herbie Hancock

I just wish more attention could be placed on the human being.
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I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.
Herbie Hancock

I mean, nobody has a statement on their record.
Herbie Hancock

I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got exposed to jazz.
Herbie Hancock

I think I heard the name Muddy Waters first, then John Lee Hooker.
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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
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I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
Herbie Hancock

I try to practice with my life.
Herbie Hancock

I was excited about the possibility of going to New York.
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I was making a hierarchy out of music, and it's ridiculous.
Herbie Hancock

I was very much aware of blues, because it was on the radio all the time.
Herbie Hancock

I wasn't concerned about jazz - that's just one of the tools.
Herbie Hancock

I'd rather be a doer than a listener.
Herbie Hancock

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
Herbie Hancock

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
Herbie Hancock

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
Herbie Hancock

I'm happy if anything that I did takes the limelight.
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I'm not telling students not to practice or advising people to limit themselves.
Herbie Hancock

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
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'I've got to learn how to do this. That's my instrument, and he can do it. Why can't I?
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I've had a lot of music in my own head.
Herbie Hancock

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.
Herbie Hancock

It is people's hearts that move the age.
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