Herbie Hancock Creativity Quotations

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

The one thing that we should stick to is to figure out how to become better human beings, but in order to do that we have to go to the second level which is to work on defining the palette of what a better human being is made of, and creativity is one of them.

My idea is that young people who are not as jaded about technology and the use of technology as we are, who didn't create the technological age, but are born into it, may be able to create software that addresses the issues that pertain to the human being and lead toward the advancement of creativity and the human spirit.

Wisdom is on a higher plane, and as human beings, it's part of our 'being-ness' to have the capacity to manifest wisdom through creativity.

We wanted to share creativity and didn't want to be bound by traditional jazz conventions.

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

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.