101 Quotations by Herbie Hancock
- 21. Even during the major avant-garde period of jazz in the late '60s and early '70s, the songs usually ...
- 22. From '70 to '73 I'd had a sextet, but the band was not self-supporting and I couldn't afford it, so ...
- 23. He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.
- 24. I always hope that as a performer I'm able to come out with something that not only makes people fee ...
- 25. I am still a jazz musician and not a pop star in terms of money and so I have to take care of my fam ...
- 26. I decided years ago that I wasn't interested in being a virtuoso of the piano.
- 27. I don't go back to anything, I just add. Just like when you eat a meal, it you eat one thing all the ...
- 28. I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of b ...
- 29. I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our hist ...
- 30. I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhis ...
- 31. I had just come out of college, and I figured that I would probably be in Chicago for the next coupl ...
- 32. I mean, nobody has a statement on their record.
- 33. I remember my very first recording. It was on a wire recorder, as the tape recording was only just o ...
- 34. I think a lot of young people being brought up in this scene feel a sense of ruthlessness. There's n ...
- 35. I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
- 36. I took a different view of what it was I had been doing before and started to come to some realizati ...
- 37. I want to have a purpose.
- 38. I was making a hierarchy out of music, and it's ridiculous.
- 39. I would be all over the piano, but Miles would play a few notes that would just wipe out all that fa ...
- 40. I'd rather be a doer than a listener.
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