Herbie Hancock Quotes
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I try to practice with my life.
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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 try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
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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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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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The true artform is being a human being.
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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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I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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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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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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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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If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.
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The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
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In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
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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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It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
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I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
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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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I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
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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.