Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

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• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

• But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Become
  • Rhythm

• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Soul

• We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Power
  • American
  • Tools

• If it's music, I love it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• Music is to give, share.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Give
  • Share

• As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Great
  • Music

• I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Playing

• I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Music
  • God
  • Gift

• Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Tea

• Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Music
  • Mind
  • May

• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Journey

• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Music
  • School
  • Game

• It is typical of Schumann's musical thinking to construct this complex network of references outside his music-to quote Beethoven, and then to have Beethoven's distant beloved refer to Clara. But this should give a clue to the nature of Schumann's achievement. It is not Schumann's music that, refers to Clara but Beethoven's melody, the 'secret tone.'

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• For me, writing is just processing.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Writing

• The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Night
  • Silence
  • Calm

• The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Imagination
  • Religion
  • Possibilities

• Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Music
  • Differences
  • Tools