Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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I don't like piano solos.
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
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My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
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I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
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I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
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The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.
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When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.
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It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.
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Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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Bob Hope was not a television pioneer. He didn't learn his lines. If you don't learn your lines, I don't take you seriously. We never had a (cue) card.
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I don't want to take away from anything from my time at Texas. I think it was actually pretty darn special.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
