Herbie Hancock Quotes
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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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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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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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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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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.
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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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You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
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It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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You don't need the fame to be vital.
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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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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
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I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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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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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
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But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.
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The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
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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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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.