The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

- Herbie Hancock

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

- Herbie Hancock

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

- Herbie Hancock

I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

- 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

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

- 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.

- Herbie Hancock

Jazz is about being in the moment.

- Herbie Hancock

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

- Herbie Hancock