Herbie Hancock
Related DEYTH BANGER NAOMI CAMPBELL But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER I was raised on NBC television. DAN HARMON It was great experience on television, but now my experience is about listening to your music, so I ... ALLAN REID I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON BUDDY HACKETT ERIC ALLIN CORNELL JULIA WARD HOWE LORNA LUFT I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER It was a beautiful sight. I won't see one again. I got very emotional and the tears just flowed. ISABEL BALSET I saw him on television. I didn't vote for his promises. I just looked at him and saw he was just li... JAFAR SHALDE BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ They were carrying them out and I was just sobbing. CAROLE HARTLEY It was her way of dealing with the grief. She was really venting when I was just sobbing. MARILYN ADAMS It just seems so odd, so surreal. I'm still like, 'I don't believe it.' When I saw it flash on the t... EUGENE ROBINSON I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-h... DONALD BYRD CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I just loved it ... it was awesome. FELICIA GARZA She was just awesome, simply awesome. She's an amazing player and her performance in the second quar... LISA KELLEY I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line. NED BEATTY LESLEY GARRETT When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making mu... DAN DEACON Wow I passed a lot of trucks. It's tough to pass, but it's exciting to make some passes here too. Fr... TED MUSGRAVE I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blue... BENICIO DEL TORO I thought it would be awesome just to have a medal at my first Worlds. My skate was so great today. ... KIMMIE MEISSNER Once the chute opened, of course, we were floating, and it was just beautiful. It was awesome. BETTY TAFT RENE RUSSO I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a ... LINDA EVANS I just lost it. I saw the base line was open. It was just a fraction of an inch. TOM SALTER I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I... DHANI HARRISON RENE RUSSO To hear them sing, I couldn't stop crying. The tears just couldn't stop. I just love them so much. JANICE COOK It was overwhelming just looking at everyone else's emotions. My family was crying, they were so exc... DEVON WILLIAMS I looked into the stands and saw a bunch of former Cyclones and for us to win with them there, it wa... BALL STATE SERJ TANKIAN The bird watching in Costa Rica was awesome and we just started, ... The birds there are gorgeous. I... HOWARD SCHWARTZ I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radio... MARK SALLING I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON VANILLA ICE When I started writing Sabbath stuff it was just something that sounded right. I didn't think I was ... TONY IOMMI DIANE KRUGER Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. MADELEINE PEYROUX 'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was jus... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE GLORIA ESTEFAN It made for such a powerful impression. Everybody was talking about how this Nirvana tune was on the... ETHAN IVERSON MICHELLE WILLIAMS WILSON MIZNER LIZ PHAIR Hey, I was raised in the church. CHEECH MARIN My mom says I was born screaming. ELLE KING TARYN MANNING When I was mixing the album I was just cheering it on, ... I was actually getting to put myself in a... JOHN BELL REEM ACRA SATCHEL PAIGE J. PAUL GETTY CHARLES OLSON NELSON MANDELA My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida. KATE UPTON I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. DAN FUTTERMAN STEVE CASE STEVEN SEAGAL I was born in Homestead, Florida. CHRISSY METZ CAROLYN KIZER I was raised to be some kind of artist. ELLAR COLTRANE It was a standout performance if I ever saw one. STEVE DAVIES I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration. LINCOLN CHAFEE AMBER HEARD I was born with an evil face. BARRY SLOANE JESSE JACKSON Leadership is something I was born with. CARMELO ANTHONY [Michaels has had a diverse career, which includes music that crossed over to contemporary country c... BRET MICHAELS ANGELINA JOLIE MARK WAHLBERG For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had thre... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL THEOPHILE GAUTIER MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church. QUINTON AARON MALUMA DEBORAH SAMPSON I was born and bred to be a great flirt. CYBILL SHEPHERD DAVID SOUL The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER I recently saw HBO's 'Getting On,' and I was like, 'That's awesome.' I love ... DANIELLE SCHNEIDER I didn't lose the worry until I saw her face up top. She was so ready. It was just hers. JEFF BEAN Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa... ROMAN COPPOLA It was just wonderful, and the house was so beautiful. ANNE ABOOD AARON PAUL I now have 20 years experience conducting Mahler's Second Symphony and studying all of Mahler's musi... GILBERT KAPLAN Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodie... BOBBY WOMACK I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her... JANE WIEDLIN BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN MARIAN KEYES It was slow motion. I just saw her going down and there was nothing I could do about it because ther... KRISTOPHER SMITH BRITT EKLAND There's only one person named Herbie Hancock. HERBIE HANCOCK TATIANA MASLANY I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. I... DOUGLAS BOOTH I could tell when she took off. I was like, 'Oh, here it goes.' That was awesome. I was so excited. ... SIDNEY SPENCER
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Aside from that, what was more in our heads when we made the new album is the concept of forging thr... HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz is a music that translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians bu... HERBIE HANCOCK Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. HERBIE HANCOCK My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit&... HERBIE HANCOCK I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got expose... HERBIE HANCOCK We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each ot... HERBIE HANCOCK Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Eva... HERBIE HANCOCK There's only one person named Herbie Hancock. HERBIE HANCOCK 'I've got to learn how to do this. That's my instrument, and he can do it. Why can't I? HERBIE HANCOCK I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours th... HERBIE HANCOCK But these days I never turn on radios, I always turn them off." HERBIE HANCOCK Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have... HERBIE HANCOCK The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a... HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. HERBIE HANCOCK In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron... HERBIE HANCOCK Buddhism opened me up to seeing things from the standpoint of being a human being - looking at the p... HERBIE HANCOCK Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake... HERBIE HANCOCK I remember my very first recording. It was on a wire recorder, as the tape recording was only just o... HERBIE HANCOCK Things like creating in the moment, being in the moment, trusting your instincts, not being afraid t... HERBIE HANCOCK I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really... HERBIE HANCOCK You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements... HERBIE HANCOCK We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at hum... HERBIE HANCOCK When synthesizers came along, it was the first time I thought that the two things I loved, which wer... HERBIE HANCOCK It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. HERBIE HANCOCK Other highlights? When I started practicing Buddhism 21 years ago. Marrying the woman I married 26 y... HERBIE HANCOCK It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipm... HERBIE HANCOCK Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the a... HERBIE HANCOCK It might have been somewhat derivative otherwise, and I'm not the kind of person who's satisfied wit... HERBIE HANCOCK It was put together in layers. The disadvantage is that there isn't really any interaction together,... HERBIE HANCOCK It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to ... HERBIE HANCOCK The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As so... HERBIE HANCOCK It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. HERBIE HANCOCK I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I ha... HERBIE HANCOCK There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you... HERBIE HANCOCK There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated ... HERBIE HANCOCK That's one of the reasons for the title of the record, Future 2 Future, because here they are creati... HERBIE HANCOCK Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking h... HERBIE HANCOCK Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I s... HERBIE HANCOCK I didn't know much about this new electronic scene. I knew it was going on, but I hadn't really foll... HERBIE HANCOCK I decided years ago that I wasn't interested in being a virtuoso of the piano. HERBIE HANCOCK The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. HERBIE HANCOCK Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to ... HERBIE HANCOCK So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many o... HERBIE HANCOCK Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their exp... HERBIE HANCOCK It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. HERBIE HANCOCK I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you ... HERBIE HANCOCK World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to ... HERBIE HANCOCK At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t... HERBIE HANCOCK Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries,... HERBIE HANCOCK You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist. HERBIE HANCOCK Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the a... HERBIE HANCOCK When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best. HERBIE HANCOCK One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people we... HERBIE HANCOCK You could never tell what was going on with Miles. You'd always leave the session not knowing if the... HERBIE HANCOCK Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am. HERBIE HANCOCK We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of... HERBIE HANCOCK He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake. HERBIE HANCOCK I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who w... HERBIE HANCOCK I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of di... HERBIE HANCOCK This was put together not just as a series of notes and chords. If I depended on what anyone else th... 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What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me. 
I was born to be funny. 
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. 
I was born 'neath a clouded star. 
I was born in a blender. 
I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded b... 
I had a gorgeous mom. She was beautiful, so I lucked out there. 
I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever... 
I wasn't going to say this, but I was just listening to Rosie O'Donnell and I have to tell you, I wa... 
I wasn't going to say this, but I was just listening to Rosie O'Donnell and I have to tell you, I wa... 
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about ... 
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that... 
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional s... 
My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King... 
I was born with a fierce need for independence. 
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. 
I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. 
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessin... 
Beirut is where I was born and raised. 
I was born in August, no July, 1908. 
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. 
I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. 
By ancestry, I was born to rule. 
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. 
I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian. 
I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo. 
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl. 
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. 
When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was... 
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. 
I was born to travel and write verse. 
I was born as a soldier and will die as one. 
I was born in the technology era. 
As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. 
I was born into a family of preachers. 
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my ... 
It was just playing music. I didn't have any intention for it. I knew that I enjoyed making this kin... 
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were jus... 
I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was st... 
Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The w... 
In principle, rapid productivity should make wages rise, but it seems that until the job market tigh... 
If this represents the start of an extended [dollar] slide, it may erode the attractiveness of dolla... 
a very poor grasp of the issues. 
It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've... 
So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean. 