Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. - Herbie Hancock
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
- Herbie Hancock
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' creat… - Herbie Hancock
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' creat…
Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision. - Herbie Hancock
Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.
I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize. - Herbie Hancock
I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity. - Herbie Hancock
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life. - Herbie Hancock
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
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 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.
Jazz is about being in the moment. - Herbie Hancock
Jazz is about being in the moment.
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human. - Herbie Hancock
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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