Herbie Hancock Classic Quotations

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

I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours that are more in the line that classical musicians play.

Most people think that classical music is a higher form than jazz only because it is from Europe, and we were taught in schools only about Western European history.

I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got exposed to jazz.

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

At first I sounded like any stiff classical musician, trying to play that stuff.