Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

Herbie Hancock

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• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Different
  • Country
  • Done

• I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Old
  • Jazz

• In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

  

  Yuna
  • Singing
  • Name
  • Jazz

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Man
  • Year
  • Jazz

• I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Think
  • Jazz
  • View

• My music is jazz.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Music
  • Jazz

• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • America
  • Jazz

• I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Church
  • Rock
  • Dance

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • First

• As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Jazz
  • Older
  • My Love

• That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

  

  Andra Day
  • Song
  • Control
  • Jazz

• If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Rock
  • Inspiration
  • Jazz

• Composing is improvisation slowed down.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Music
  • Jazz
  • Improvisation

• I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Listening

• They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Jazz

• Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Cool
  • Cat
  • Jazz

• Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Everything
  • Emotion
  • Jazz

• There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the work of parenting in the isolation of their own homes - and not only that, this trend has overlapped with the other trend of much deeper parent involvement in raising kids. That you also represent trend No. 3, more people raising kids solo, has only exacerbated a close-to-no-win situation.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Past

• I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Idol

• True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • True
  • Lies
  • Memory

• I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Jazz
  • Eclectic
  • Incorporating