238 ordspråk av Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
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Even during the major avant-garde period of jazz in the late '60s and early '70s, the songs usually had melodies, some harmonic starting-off point, or something to unify a particular piece in the beginning.
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Even the things that are on the Plugged Nickel set. I don't know how we did some of that.
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Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking human beings and saying, what can you do with that.
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Eye of the Hurricane,
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First of all I should explain that synthesizers themselves, I don't consider them instruments, they are instrument makers, because you can program them to be whatever sound you want.
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From '70 to '73 I'd had a sextet, but the band was not self-supporting and I couldn't afford it, so I broke it up. And then I didn't know what kind of music I wanted to do, because I was just fed up to here with it. It wasn't fulfilling anymore.
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Future Shock.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.
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He was a man of mystery, magic and mystique.
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He was a man of mystery, magic and mystique. It was often said he was an enigma. I would venture to say that many who said that just didn't get it.
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Here was this young beautiful black woman that just kind of opened Miles' eyes up.
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I actually own Final Cut Pro, which is software for editing video, and Premiere from Adobe, I have that.
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I agree with taking the time and respecting the great innovators of the past, but the word innovation would cease to exist if we all do is look at the past.
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