Herbie Hancock Quotes
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Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.
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You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
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So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.
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I have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.
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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
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Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.
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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.
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The true artform is being a human being.
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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.
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Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'
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I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
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At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
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Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.
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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
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Music truly is the universal language.
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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.