Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancockis an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor. Starting his career with Donald Byrd, he shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet where Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk music. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth12 April 1940
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
You don't need the fame to be vital.
I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.
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 of music.
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 era for the whole hip-hop movement.
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.
All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.