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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Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
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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'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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Music truly is the universal language.
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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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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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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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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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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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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
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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'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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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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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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Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
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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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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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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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Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.