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Jazz Quotes by Herbie Hancock
- Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.
- I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in…
- Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form…
- A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or…
- Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century,
- When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood.…
- I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
- Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
- It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
- Jazz is about being in the moment.
- 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 like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of 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.
- I think I was supposed to play jazz.
- It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
- It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
- Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
- One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
- The music becomes something that is its own entity.
- The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
- In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was…
- My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new…
- One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African…
- The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because…
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