Herbie Hancock Quotations | Page 3

I wasn't concerned about jazz - that's just one of the tools.

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.