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Herbie Hancock Quotes

«See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.»
«A lot of the people that are making the music didn't have the kind of experiences I've had, playing with some of the great masters of jazz.»
«What I always wonder is, why is it that whenever I make a record they think that whatever that thing is on that record, that's the only thing I do?»
«People are afraid to spend money now because they don't know how long they're going to be working.»
«And that was fascinating, because you could do something different every time.»
«The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.»
«It is people's hearts that move the age.»
«So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh birthday my parents got me a piano.»
«Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.»
«When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.»