Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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
Country
Many
Jazz
Countries
Century
Half
Freedom
Voice
Past
More quotes by Herbie Hancock
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
Herbie Hancock
Jazz is about being in the moment.
Herbie Hancock
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
One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
Herbie Hancock
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
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
When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
Herbie Hancock
I try to practice with my life.
Herbie Hancock
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
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
Herbie Hancock
People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
Herbie Hancock
Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
Herbie Hancock
I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
Herbie Hancock
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
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
So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.
Herbie Hancock
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
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
Herbie Hancock
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
Herbie Hancock
