Quote

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

Herbie Hancock

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
Actor
Bandleader
Conductor
Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
Keyboardist
Musician
Pianist
Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
Illinois
Herbert Jeffrey Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
Great
Think
Thinking
Life
Adventures
Adventure
Taking
Risk
Full

More quotes by Herbie Hancock

Image
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock
Image
I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
Herbie Hancock
Image
Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
Herbie Hancock
Image
My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
Herbie Hancock
Image
As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
Herbie Hancock
Image
It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
Herbie Hancock
Image
I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
Herbie Hancock
Image
You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
Herbie Hancock
Image
It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
Herbie Hancock
Image
People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.
Herbie Hancock
Image
We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.
Herbie Hancock
Image
Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
Herbie Hancock
Image
I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
Herbie Hancock
Image
Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
Herbie Hancock
Image
A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
Herbie Hancock
Image
It is people's hearts that move the age.
Herbie Hancock
Image
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
Herbie Hancock
Image
I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
Herbie Hancock
Image
The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
Herbie Hancock
Image
I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
Herbie Hancock