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Herbie Hancock Quotes

«You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.»
«And jazz is also for the body because it is rhythmic, but it's also for the mind and for the soul, and it is very creative.»
«But in jazz, the song may be written by somebody else, but how you treat it is entirely with your notes and your expression.»
«I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.»
«A method that doesn't use what you know. It's just pure, raw emotion.»
«At first I sounded like any stiff classical musician, trying to play that stuff.»
«Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.»
«In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.»
«It gets boring when you look out at the audience and you see that 90 percent of the people out there are males.»
«It was put together in layers. The disadvantage is that there isn't really any interaction together, so you have to manufacture that interaction to make it believable.»