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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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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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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If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.
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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
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...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.
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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.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
