Quote

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

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
Ways
Looking
Future
Way
Always
Carving
Things
Forward
Toward
Interested

More quotes by Herbie Hancock

Image
Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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
In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
Herbie Hancock
Image
If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.
Herbie Hancock
Image
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Herbie Hancock
Image
I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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
It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
Herbie Hancock
Image
You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
Herbie Hancock
Image
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
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
So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
Herbie Hancock
Image
Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
Herbie Hancock
Image
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.
Herbie Hancock
Image
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
Herbie Hancock
Image
Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
Herbie Hancock
Image
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
Herbie Hancock
Image
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock
Image
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Herbie Hancock
Image
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
Herbie Hancock