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All Quotes by author - Herbie Hancock

" All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note. "

" As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment. "

" At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. "

" Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis. "

" Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am. "

" Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. "

" Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human. "

" But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. "

" But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already. "

" Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were. "

" Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. "

" Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. "

" Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill. "

" Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision. "

" Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me. "

" Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person. "

" Hip-hop is all over the planet. "

" I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being. "

" 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. "

" I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself. "

" I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being. "

" I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism. "

" I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music. "

" I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can. "

" 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. "

" I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment. "

" I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music. "

" I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts. "

" I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record. "

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

Looking Forward

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