Quotes from Herbie Hancock

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

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

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

It is people's hearts that move the age.

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

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

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

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

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.

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

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.