Herbie Hancock Quotes

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

I think with everything I do, I'm trying to just come up with new ways of creating music and mixing styles together. That's just what's fun for me to do, to try to make myself inspired.

I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.