Herbie Hancock Notes Quotations

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

So, he taught me how to play a simple riff and I somehow found a couple of other notes to play, then I learned how to watch his left hand and I learned where the notes were.

I would be all over the piano, but Miles would play a few notes that would just wipe out all that fancy stuff I was playing.

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.

It's not just a collection of overdubs, ... Every artist on the record gave me their heart - and each track is a surprise. This album was about interaction, freedom and looseness. It may not have the notes of jazz, but it was created in the spirit of jazz.

But in jazz, the song may be written by somebody else, but how you treat it is entirely with your notes and your expression.