Music isn't about music, it's about life.
Herbie HancockRead
We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.
Interpretation
We are connected to each other and our surroundings in a profound way.
Herbie Hancock's quote emphasizes the deep interconnection between individuals and their environment. It suggests that our relationships extend beyond human interaction, encompassing the natural world and the broader universe, highlighting the importance of respecting and nurturing these links for a harmonious existence.
In practice
During an environmental awareness seminar to emphasize the importance of conservation.
Music isn't about music, it's about life.
I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
I think people have learned that Herbie Hancock can be defined as someone that you won't be able to figure out what he's going to do next. The sky is the limit as far as I'm concerned.
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.
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.
In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for those who live in the city, where the conditions of life, often feverish, leave little room for silence, reflection and relaxed contact with nature.
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons
Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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