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There's only one person named Herbie Hancock.
HERBIE HANCOCK I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-h...
DONALD BYRD![]()
He has a deep awareness of music like (Thelonious) Monk, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea and Herbie Ha...
CARLOS SANTANA The irony is Santana used outside vocalists before, but now older artists need certain celebrities t...
SEAN ROSS Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I d...
ENNIO MORRICONE You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a ...
ENNIO MORRICONE I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sound...
ENNIO MORRICONE I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
ENNIO MORRICONE There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
ENNIO MORRICONE I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I us...
ENNIO MORRICONE It made for such a powerful impression. Everybody was talking about how this Nirvana tune was on the...
ETHAN IVERSON We have always admired the enormous talents of Herbie Hancock, ... When Jack Rovner and I first lear...
KEN LOMBARD![]()
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER![]()
I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
It's the truth one road and tha...
DEYTH BANGER This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radio...
MARK SALLING![]()
I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens from now on, even if my heart ends up in pieces, this m...
SOPHIE HANNAH![]()
If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
KYLE CHANDLER If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE![]()
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there was...
PHIL COLLINS It makes a lot of sense for Hancock to do this because they are heavily dependent, in that it takes ...
DAVID GOODWIN![]()
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING![]()
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
PAUL MCCARTNEY An arrangement like this sends a very good signal about the industry.
BRENDAN BELL![]()
Most pianists listen to about four or five different piano players before they call it quits and say...
JASON MORAN![]()
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l...
RICHARD BRANSON![]()
When I then turned toward the scriptures, they appeared to me to be quite unworthy to be compared wi...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO![]()
... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it bac...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II![]()
If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA![]()
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO![]()
It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL The target audience is technology enthusiasts. But it can be broadly used. We feel very good about i...
GARY SCHARE It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there...
HERBIE HANCOCK Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more...
HERBIE HANCOCK The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a...
HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, alt...
HERBIE HANCOCK I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
HERBIE HANCOCK The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As so...
HERBIE HANCOCK It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries,...
HERBIE HANCOCK Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have...
HERBIE HANCOCK I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I ha...
HERBIE HANCOCK In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron...
HERBIE HANCOCK I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really...
HERBIE HANCOCK You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
HERBIE HANCOCK Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the a...
HERBIE HANCOCK We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of...
HERBIE HANCOCK You could never tell what was going on with Miles. You'd always leave the session not knowing if the...
HERBIE HANCOCK There's Charlie Parker and there's Miles, there's Trane. I'm none of those guys, so why am I beating...
HERBIE HANCOCK Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Eva...
HERBIE HANCOCK My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit&...
HERBIE HANCOCK I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about lif...
HERBIE HANCOCK He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.
HERBIE HANCOCK Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake...
HERBIE HANCOCK The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
HERBIE HANCOCK Buddhism opened me up to seeing things from the standpoint of being a human being - looking at the p...
HERBIE HANCOCK Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
HERBIE HANCOCK Musicians tend to limit themselves,
HERBIE HANCOCK It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peac...
HERBIE HANCOCK It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipm...
HERBIE HANCOCK I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who w...
HERBIE HANCOCK I agree with taking the time and respecting the great innovators of the past, but the word innovatio...
HERBIE HANCOCK Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
HERBIE HANCOCK On a human level, the garbage man is just as important as the teacher or a rock star or a president,...
HERBIE HANCOCK I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK 'I've got to learn how to do this. That's my instrument, and he can do it. Why can't I?
HERBIE HANCOCK You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements...
HERBIE HANCOCK Over the years I've made decisions about things, especially music, and have been scoffed at and ridi...
HERBIE HANCOCK I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours th...
HERBIE HANCOCK The thing is, much of the way I look at music now, and its role as an aspect of culture, and creativ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's E...
HERBIE HANCOCK But these days I never turn on radios, I always turn them off."
HERBIE HANCOCK There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Still, when I finally left Miles in '68 and got my own band, it was a logical step; because anybody ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Not too many people my age really zeroed in on the blues. Most of the people that listened to it wer...
HERBIE HANCOCK The fact that young hip-hop artists are searching for the jazz roots of their music acknowledges the...
HERBIE HANCOCK That's one of the reasons for the title of the record, Future 2 Future, because here they are creati...
HERBIE HANCOCK Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking h...
HERBIE HANCOCK We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at hum...
HERBIE HANCOCK Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a...
HERBIE HANCOCK Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I s...
HERBIE HANCOCK So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh ...
HERBIE HANCOCK It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into ...
HERBIE HANCOCK We live on a planet that now must face, hopefully, a form of globalization inclusive of a vision to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I...
HERBIE HANCOCK First of all I should explain that synthesizers themselves, I don't consider them instruments, they ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Other highlights? When I started practicing Buddhism 21 years ago. Marrying the woman I married 26 y...
HERBIE HANCOCK When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism adds something, too,...
HERBIE HANCOCK I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhis...
HERBIE HANCOCK There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you...
HERBIE HANCOCK When synthesizers came along, it was the first time I thought that the two things I loved, which wer...
HERBIE HANCOCK It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to...
HERBIE HANCOCK When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a ...
HERBIE HANCOCK So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many o...
HERBIE HANCOCK Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their exp...
HERBIE HANCOCK
HERBIE HANCOCK I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-h...
DONALD BYRD
He has a deep awareness of music like (Thelonious) Monk, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea and Herbie Ha... CARLOS SANTANA The irony is Santana used outside vocalists before, but now older artists need certain celebrities t...
SEAN ROSS Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I d...
ENNIO MORRICONE You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a ...
ENNIO MORRICONE I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sound...
ENNIO MORRICONE I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
ENNIO MORRICONE There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
ENNIO MORRICONE I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I us...
ENNIO MORRICONE It made for such a powerful impression. Everybody was talking about how this Nirvana tune was on the...
ETHAN IVERSON We have always admired the enormous talents of Herbie Hancock, ... When Jack Rovner and I first lear...
KEN LOMBARD
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER
I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??It's the truth one road and tha...
DEYTH BANGER This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radio...
MARK SALLING
I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens from now on, even if my heart ends up in pieces, this m... SOPHIE HANNAH
If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it. KYLE CHANDLER If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there was... PHIL COLLINS It makes a lot of sense for Hancock to do this because they are heavily dependent, in that it takes ...
DAVID GOODWIN
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement. PAUL MCCARTNEY An arrangement like this sends a very good signal about the industry.
BRENDAN BELL
Most pianists listen to about four or five different piano players before they call it quits and say... JASON MORAN
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l... RICHARD BRANSON
When I then turned toward the scriptures, they appeared to me to be quite unworthy to be compared wi... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it bac... DEYTH BANGER
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II
If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO
It ends or it doesn't.That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL The target audience is technology enthusiasts. But it can be broadly used. We feel very good about i...
GARY SCHARE It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there...
HERBIE HANCOCK Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more...
HERBIE HANCOCK The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a...
HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, alt...
HERBIE HANCOCK I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
HERBIE HANCOCK The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As so...
HERBIE HANCOCK It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries,...
HERBIE HANCOCK Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have...
HERBIE HANCOCK I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I ha...
HERBIE HANCOCK In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron...
HERBIE HANCOCK I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really...
HERBIE HANCOCK You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
HERBIE HANCOCK Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the a...
HERBIE HANCOCK We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of...
HERBIE HANCOCK You could never tell what was going on with Miles. You'd always leave the session not knowing if the...
HERBIE HANCOCK There's Charlie Parker and there's Miles, there's Trane. I'm none of those guys, so why am I beating...
HERBIE HANCOCK Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Eva...
HERBIE HANCOCK My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit&...
HERBIE HANCOCK I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about lif...
HERBIE HANCOCK He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.
HERBIE HANCOCK Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake...
HERBIE HANCOCK The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
HERBIE HANCOCK Buddhism opened me up to seeing things from the standpoint of being a human being - looking at the p...
HERBIE HANCOCK Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
HERBIE HANCOCK Musicians tend to limit themselves,
HERBIE HANCOCK It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
HERBIE HANCOCK As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peac...
HERBIE HANCOCK It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipm...
HERBIE HANCOCK I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who w...
HERBIE HANCOCK I agree with taking the time and respecting the great innovators of the past, but the word innovatio...
HERBIE HANCOCK Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
HERBIE HANCOCK On a human level, the garbage man is just as important as the teacher or a rock star or a president,...
HERBIE HANCOCK I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK 'I've got to learn how to do this. That's my instrument, and he can do it. Why can't I?
HERBIE HANCOCK You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements...
HERBIE HANCOCK Over the years I've made decisions about things, especially music, and have been scoffed at and ridi...
HERBIE HANCOCK I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours th...
HERBIE HANCOCK The thing is, much of the way I look at music now, and its role as an aspect of culture, and creativ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's E...
HERBIE HANCOCK But these days I never turn on radios, I always turn them off."
HERBIE HANCOCK There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Still, when I finally left Miles in '68 and got my own band, it was a logical step; because anybody ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Not too many people my age really zeroed in on the blues. Most of the people that listened to it wer...
HERBIE HANCOCK The fact that young hip-hop artists are searching for the jazz roots of their music acknowledges the...
HERBIE HANCOCK That's one of the reasons for the title of the record, Future 2 Future, because here they are creati...
HERBIE HANCOCK Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking h...
HERBIE HANCOCK We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at hum...
HERBIE HANCOCK Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a...
HERBIE HANCOCK Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I s...
HERBIE HANCOCK So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh ...
HERBIE HANCOCK It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into ...
HERBIE HANCOCK We live on a planet that now must face, hopefully, a form of globalization inclusive of a vision to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I...
HERBIE HANCOCK First of all I should explain that synthesizers themselves, I don't consider them instruments, they ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Other highlights? When I started practicing Buddhism 21 years ago. Marrying the woman I married 26 y...
HERBIE HANCOCK When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism adds something, too,...
HERBIE HANCOCK I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhis...
HERBIE HANCOCK There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you...
HERBIE HANCOCK When synthesizers came along, it was the first time I thought that the two things I loved, which wer...
HERBIE HANCOCK It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to...
HERBIE HANCOCK When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a ...
HERBIE HANCOCK So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many o...
HERBIE HANCOCK Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their exp...
HERBIE HANCOCK
