Quotes By Herbie Hancock

I try to practice with my life.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

It is people's hearts that move the age.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

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

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.