Herbie Hancock Quotes


"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Art, Music, Language)

"Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Life, Music, Difference)

"I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Time, Religious, Spiritual)

"Nobody told me I was a child prodigy."
- Herbie Hancock
"One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: People, Jazz)

"One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Values, Vision, Buddhism, Support)

"Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Music, Time)

"Jazz is about being in the moment."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Being, Jazz)

"See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: People, Rules)

"Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Creativity)

"Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Music, Jazz, Lent)

"It is people's hearts that move the age."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Age, People)

"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Beauty, Problems)

"I think I was supposed to play jazz."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Jazz, Play)

"Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Impression)

"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Music, Creativity, Mission)

"But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Truth)

"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."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Father, HusbForget, World)

"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Jazz)

"I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Value)

"I try to practice with my life."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Life, Practice)

"I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Future)

"I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Music, Visions)

"It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Attitude, Project, Style)

"In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Music, Leader, Development, Past)

"Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Being)

"I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Buddhism)

"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Jazz, Spirit)

"You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Life)

"You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge, Practice)

"You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Practice)

"We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Environment)

"While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Knowledge, Force, Future, May)

"Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Wisdom, Purpose, Future, Meaning)

"When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Life)

"When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Time, Thought)

"The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Music, Value)

"The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Wisdom, Ability, Machines)

"The music becomes something that is its own entity."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Music)

"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Jazz, Spirit)

"The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Music, Time, Play, Right, Value)