Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

Herbie Hancock

• Records
• Fields

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

  

  Karen O
  • Difficult
  • Records
  • Really

• The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Music
  • Records
  • Discover

• When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Inspiration
  • Records
  • Wanting

• Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Important
  • Party
  • Popular

• I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Art
  • Business
  • Acting

• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Firsts
  • Records

• If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Ifs
  • Fields
  • Default

• There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • House
  • Records

• I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Done
  • Feels
  • Made

• I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Records

• I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.

  

  George Benson
  • Up
  • World
  • Eyes

• Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

  

  John Milton
  • Happy
  • Fields
  • Farewell

• The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Air
  • Flower
  • Rose

• Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

  

  Howard Duane Allman The Allman Brothers Band
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Records

• I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Sick
  • Records
  • Stuck

• I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.

  

  Stevie Jackson Belle and Sebastian
  • Thinking
  • Records
  • Representation

• I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Quality
  • Singing
  • Records

• Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.

  

  John Prine
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Kind

• The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Soul
  • Freedom
  • Moments

• I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Trying
  • Politics
  • Turns

• When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.

  

  Etta James
  • Hurt
  • Feelings
  • Sing

• There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Records
  • Fields