Herbie Hancock Written Quotations

When I was a kid, I won a contest and played a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony, and I've written some movie scores, and I've been listening to orchestral music for years.

It's very different from classical music. In classical music, you are playing something that is written by someone else.

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