Herbie Hancock

Musician

1940-04-12

Quotes by Herbie Hancock

• I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

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• I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

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• 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.

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• When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni, I admire not only for her music but for her person, because she's a person that really stands out for what she believes in.

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

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• At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

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• Music truly is the universal language.

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• I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

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• The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

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• World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

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