Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

Herbie Hancock

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• I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Father
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• I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Sometimes
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• I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Never
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• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  

  Francine Pascal
  • People
  • Same
  • Piano

• I don't like piano solos.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
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• I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Play
  • Like
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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.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Write
  • Piano
  • Software

• My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Study

• 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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Learn
  • Start
  • Piano

• I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Work
  • Play
  • Going

• I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Music
  • Player
  • Piano

• I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Simple
  • Dark
  • Existence

• 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.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Mood

• I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Long
  • Piano
  • Consistency

• My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

  

  Stephen Hough
  • Words
  • Commitment
  • Loved

• Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Nature
  • Effort
  • Animal

• The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Trick

• I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Piano