Herbie Hancock Quotes
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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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I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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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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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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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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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.
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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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The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
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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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You don't need the fame to be vital.
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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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I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
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A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
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It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
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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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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
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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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Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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Music truly is the universal language.