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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The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
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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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The pedal is the soul of the piano.
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As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.
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Drama is not my passion. If I do it, it's for a check. It's not what I want to do. Comedy's my thing. Stand up's my thing. Everything that comes from that is frosting on the cake.
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Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
