Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Much
Motivates
Openness
Project
Jazz
Projects
Style
Attitude
More quotes by Herbie Hancock
I try to practice with my life.
Herbie Hancock
I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
Herbie Hancock
Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
Herbie Hancock
Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
Herbie Hancock
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
The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
Herbie Hancock
I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
Herbie Hancock
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
Herbie Hancock
Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
Herbie Hancock
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.
Herbie Hancock
People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
Herbie Hancock
I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
Herbie Hancock
One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
Herbie Hancock
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
I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
Herbie Hancock
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
Herbie Hancock
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
Herbie Hancock
I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
Herbie Hancock
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
So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
Herbie Hancock
