List of Herbie Hancock Quotes

If You're Not Judging What Happens, Then You're Trusting What Others Are Doing, What You're Playing, And Trusting What You're Playing.and It Can Lead You To Other Ideas, To Something Maybe You Hadn't Expressed Before.

I Don't Look At Music From The Standpoint Of Being A Musician; I Look At It From The Standpoint Of Being A Human Being.

Like No Matter What Happens, This Would Be The Ultimate, They Can Make Something Positive Happen.

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.

I've Never Really Been Interested In Doing A Solo Piano Tour.

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.

When I Was In My Early Teens, I Remember Coming To The Conclusion That Your Life Never Ends.

Being A Musician Is What I Do, But It's Not What I Am.

So Much Of What I Create Has Been Due To The Influence Of Miles Davis And Donald Byrd, And So Many Of Those That Have Passed On. Their Music, Their Legacy Lives On With The Rest Of Us Because We Are So Highly Influenced By Their Experience And What They Have Given Us.

Oscar Peterson Is The Greatest Living Influence On Jazz Pianists Today.

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.

I Feel A Lot More Secure About The Directions I Take, Than I Might Have, Had I Not Practiced Buddhism.