Quotes from Herbie Hancock

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

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

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

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

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

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

I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.

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