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Herbie Hancock Quotes
«I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,»
Author: Herbie Hancock
«I said, 'If Miles is so open, it must be cool to be open to all this other stuff.' »
Author: Herbie Hancock
«We talked for a couple of hours before we played a note. We didn't talk about music, we talked about life - families, children, issues in the world, politics, so many things. The kind of camaraderie we developed helped make the music what it is. I wanted to find a common ground and connect as people first.»
Author: Herbie Hancock
«My taste is broad, and my interest in exploration is broad,»
Author: Herbie Hancock
«I wanted to work with artists who were strong enough personalities that they'd all have something of their own to bring. My foundation is jazz, which is all about interaction. Jazz gives you a lot of tools to play with.»
Author: Herbie Hancock
«This was put together not just as a series of notes and chords. If I depended on what anyone else thinks, I never would have stretched and discovered the various dimensions of myself.»
Author: Herbie Hancock
«I was thinking it might be interesting if I made a wish list of artists whose work I admire, whose work I like, and whose work I?m intrigued by,»
Author: Herbie Hancock
«I was on tour with Miles Davis, and we had a gig to play at a theater in Los Angeles in 1965. And the opening act was the Aretha Franklin Jazz Trio. She was this young artist and she played sort of funky jazz piano with an upright bassist and a drummer. Then she sang, and she blew the roof off the place. The rest is history. I'd rate her up there with Zeus.»
Author: Herbie Hancock
«Scary.»
Author: Herbie Hancock
«Eye of the Hurricane,»
Author: Herbie Hancock