238 ordspråk av Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
I was excited about the possibility of going to New York.
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I was making a hierarchy out of music, and it's ridiculous.
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I was on tour with Miles Davis, and we had a gig to play at a theater in Los Angeles in 1965. And the opening act was the Aretha Franklin Jazz Trio. She was this young artist and she played sort of funky jazz piano with an upright bassist and a drummer. Then she sang, and she blew the roof off the place. The rest is history. I'd rate her up there with Zeus.
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I was thinking it might be interesting if I made a wish list of artists whose work I admire, whose work I like, and whose work I’m intrigued by,
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I was trying to make something truly collaborative,
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I was very much aware of blues, because it was on the radio all the time.
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I wasn't concerned about jazz - that's just one of the tools.
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I wasn't really aware that the blues was making the transition from acoustic to electric then, but that doesn't mean it didn't have any effect on what I was doing at the time.
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I would be all over the piano, but Miles would play a few notes that would just wipe out all that fancy stuff I was playing.
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I'm a human being all the time, even when I sleep. But I'm not a musician when I sleep, and I'm not a musician when I eat, unless I'm paying attention to music or talking about music.
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I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about life, not about musicians.
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I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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I'm an American man, and I'm concerned about the present and the future as has as this country and its people are concerned.
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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
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