Herbie Hancock Quotes

• Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

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• You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom.

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• Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

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• While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

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• When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

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• When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn’t I couldn’t do my best.

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• We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

  Herbie Hancock

• The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

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• The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

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• The thing that we possess, that machines don’t, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

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• The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

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• The music becomes something that is its own entity.

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• Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

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• See, there were certain rules I’d always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

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• One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

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• One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

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• Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

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• Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.

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• Miles’ sessions were not typical of anybody else’s sessions. They were totally unique.

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• Jazz is about being in the moment.

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Herbie Hancock (42)

Birth:	12th April, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician

About

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an American jazz musician, composer, record producer and actor. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk music. His music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His best-known compositions include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. His role in several films include: Round Midnight, Indecent Proposal, Hitters, and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets(upcoming 2017). His albums list shown below: Takin' Off, Empyrean Isles, Speak Like a Child, Crossings, Head Hunters, Secrets, Sunlight, The Piano, Magic Windows, Perfect Machine, The New Standard, Possibilities, and The Imagine Project.

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