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When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?
— Herbie Hancock
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
— Herbie Hancock
I try to practice with my life.
— Herbie Hancock
Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
— Herbie Hancock
So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
— Herbie Hancock
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
— Herbie Mann
I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
— Herbie Hancock
I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
— Herbie Hancock
Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.
— Herbie Hancock
When I was young I used to listen to everything.
— Herbie Hancock
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
— Herbie Hancock
To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.
— Herbie Hancock
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
— Herbie Hancock
One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.
— Herbie Hancock
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
— Herbie Hancock
Music isn't about music, it's about life.
— Herbie Hancock
Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.
— Herbie Hancock
The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
— Herbie Mann
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
— Herbie Hancock
I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.
— Herbie Hancock
It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
— Herbie Hancock
People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
— Herbie Hancock
Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
— Herbie Hancock
Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
— Herbie Hancock
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
— Herbie Mann
I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
— Herbie Mann
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
— Herbie Hancock
Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
— Herbie Hancock
I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
— Herbie Hancock
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
The music becomes something that is its own entity.
— Herbie Hancock
One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
— 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
I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
— Herbie Hancock
Jazz is about being in the moment.
— Herbie Hancock
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
— Herbie Hancock
See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.
— Herbie Hancock
He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.
— Herbie Brennan
The true artform is being a human being.
— Herbie Hancock
Take whatever happens and try to make it work.
— Herbie Hancock
Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.
— Herbie Hancock
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
— Herbie Hancock
We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.
— Herbie Hancock
In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.
— 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
Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.
— Herbie Hancock
World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
— Herbie Hancock
I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
— Jim Sullivan
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century,
— Herbie Hancock
To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
— Herbie Mann
Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
— Herbie Hancock
You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.
— Herbie Mann
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
— Herbie Hancock
One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.
— Herbie Mann
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
— Donald Byrd
It is people's hearts that move the age.
— Herbie Hancock
Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
— Herbie Hancock
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.
— Herbie Hancock
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
You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
— Herbie Hancock
By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.
— Herbie Mann
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
— Herbie Hancock
Blue clung to Pyrgus and her tears turned to a ghastly, gurgling giggle. 'I'm Queen of Hael now, Mr. Fogarty,' she said; and she fainted.
— Herbie Brennan
Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
— Herbie Hancock
I think I was supposed to play jazz.
— Herbie Hancock
We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.
— Herbie Hancock
You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
— Herbie Hancock
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language
— Herbie Hancock
In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
— Herbie Hancock
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music
— Herbie Hancock
When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.
— Herbie Hancock
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
— Herbie Hancock
Music truly is the universal language.
— Herbie Hancock
I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.
— Larry King
If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation ...
— Herbie Brennan
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
I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.
— Herbie Mann
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
— Herbie Mann
Hip-hop is all over the planet.
— Herbie Hancock
Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
— Herbie Hancock