Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
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I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
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An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.
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I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Scandal,' but it's fun to just go into someone's world for eight days and do your thing, and then leave.
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Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.
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I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.
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The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
