Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

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

Herbie Hancock

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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.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Blues

• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • History
  • Bridges

• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• 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.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Vision

• For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Know
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Small
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Great
  • Music
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Goddess

• 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.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• 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.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • World
  • Music
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Violence
  • Child

• Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Community
  • Support
  • Vision

• Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Music
  • Writing
  • She

• Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Dream

• Obviously, as the music business has suffered tremendously, with being able to illegally download everything, it's also become amazingly easy to find new bands, because everyone can put their stuff online. Even if you can't find a record label, you can find these awesome bands, all over the world.

  

  Jorma Taccone
  • World
  • Music
  • Business

• In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity .

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Music
  • Logic

• Who directed the video 'No More Drama' for Mary J. Blige. I was actually kickin' with J. Lo talking about some music that we're gonna put together, and we were talking about great directors. She said she really, really liked that video and was wondering who directed it, so yeah, I looked it up!

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

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

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Music
  • Vision
  • Jazz