Herbie Hancock Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Spirit, Jazz

• 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

• Jazz is about being in the moment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Moments

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

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Infinity, Jazz

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2016

• It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

  Herbie Hancock

  Way, Jazz, Magnet

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Creativity, Radio

• The music becomes something that is its own entity.

  Herbie Hancock

  Jazz, Entity

• It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Spirit, Jazz

• One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

  Herbie Hancock

  Mean, People, African American

• Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Genre

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Inspirational, Music, Creativity

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

• A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Parent, Musician, Dinner

• I try to practice with my life.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Practice, Trying

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, People, Jazz

• 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

• I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.

  Herbie Hancock

  Years, Together, Albums

• 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

  Music, Real, Mean

  "Herbie Hancock: All That's Jazz". "SoCal Connected" with Michael Okwu, www.kcet.org.

• 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

  Change, Long, Jazz

• Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Inspiration, Jazz

• The true artform is being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Humans

• It is people's hearts that move the age.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Moving, Heart

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Art, Choices

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Technique, Jazz

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Buddhism, Might, Jazz

• I think I was supposed to play jazz.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Thinking, Play

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