101 Quotations by Herbie Hancock
- 61. On a human level, the garbage man is just as important as the teacher or a rock star or a president, ...

- 62. Other highlights? When I started practicing Buddhism 21 years ago. Marrying the woman I married 26 y ...

- 63. People put you on a pedestal when you become famous, in their eyes, or if they really respect your w ...

- 64. Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's E ...

- 65. Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

- 66. So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and that's what a master does.

- 67. So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh ...

- 68. So to answer your question more directly, I think it's very important, in order not to have a boring ...

- 69. So, he taught me how to play a simple riff and I somehow found a couple of other notes to play, then ...

- 70. Sometimes you can practice something but what you wind up playing when you're out doing a gig is not ...

- 71. Still, when I finally left Miles in '68 and got my own band, it was a logical step; because anybody ...

- 72. Technology has developed to a whole other level and there's the scientist part of me that loves that ...

- 73. That interest was there before, but coming from the standpoint of being a human being, now I underst ...

- 74. That's one of the reasons for the title of the record, Future 2 Future, because here they are creati ...

- 75. That's when I began to understand what a chord is. So I learned theory to find a shorter method to t ...

- 76. The arts can help establish stronger relationships between countries and cultures, in a way that is ...

- 77. The concept of improvisation is an idea that's very close to my heart, but I can manifest that in a ...

- 78. The fact that young hip-hop artists are searching for the jazz roots of their music acknowledges the ...

- 79. The one thing that we should stick to is to figure out how to become better human beings, but in ord ...

- 80. The thing is, much of the way I look at music now, and its role as an aspect of culture, and creativ ...

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