238 ordspråk av Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
What establishes value is something that is going to move humanity forward. If humanity is not in the equation, it's like the planet without any human beings on it.
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What I always wonder is, why is it that whenever I make a record they think that whatever that thing is on that record, that's the only thing I do?
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When I did Future 2 Future, it occurred to me, that I hadn't really done anything in electric music in a while.
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When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism adds something, too, which is that your life also never begins. It's eternal.
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When I do concerts, because I've been in the business for a long time and certain pieces of music have become associated with me, I do some pieces from the past.
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When I sense a more conservative and limiting attitude coming from musicians, than my impression is that they're really moving away from the true spirit of jazz.
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When I was a kid, I used to sit up in bed, put my elbows on the windowsill and look out at the stars and wonder. About space, eternity, the concept of God and creation.
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When I was a kid, I won a contest and played a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony, and I've written some movie scores, and I've been listening to orchestral music for years.
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When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
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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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When I'm sensitive to the circumstances surrounding me, then I can be inspired by them or use them in whatever I may be creating.
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When synthesizers came along, it was the first time I thought that the two things I loved, which were science and music, could be put together.
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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.
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When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking about the music that I play called jazz.
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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
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