Herbie Hancock Quotes

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• Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Infinity, Jazz

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2016

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• 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

  Fear, Lying, Adventure

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• Music isn't about music, it's about life.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music Is

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• Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. That’s something that’s built into the fiber of every human being. And I think that’s why people can respond to it. They feel the freedom in it. And the attributes of jazz are also admirable. It’s about dialogue. It’s about sharing. And teamwork. It’s in the moment, and it's nonjudgmental.

  Herbie Hancock

  Teamwork, Struggle, Thinking

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• You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

  Herbie Hancock

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Meaning Of Life

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• The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Spirit, Jazz

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• 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

  Teacher, Creativity, Goal

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Vision, Trying, Pathways

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 14, 2006.

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• Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Jazz, Influence, Enough

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• Jazz is about being in the moment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Moments

  Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey (2014). “Herbie Hancock: Possibilities”, p.10, Penguin

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• You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

  Herbie Hancock

  Color, Different, Combining

  "Musical Legend Herbie Hancock Fuses Jazz, Global Rhythms". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 16, 2010.

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• The true artform is being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Humans

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Differences, Making A Difference, Tools

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• Music truly is the universal language.

  Herbie Hancock

  Language, Universal Language, Universal

  "Herbie Hancock - The Imagine Project" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Practice

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2016

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Play, Needs, Notes

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• It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Keys, Overcoming, Obstacles

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2017

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Art, Language

  FaceBook post by Herbie Hancock from Nov 19, 2015

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• I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

  Herbie Hancock

  Thinking, Way, Problem

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2015

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• When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.

  Herbie Hancock

  Struggle, Interesting, Stuff

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• The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

  Herbie Hancock

  Compassion, Carpe Diem, Things In Life

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• 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

  Peace, Moving, Compassion

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• 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

  Evolution, Offers, Humans

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• In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Art, Choices

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• The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

  Herbie Hancock

  Integrity, Believe, Heart

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 14, 2006.

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