Herbie Hancock

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn’t I couldn’t do my best.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

Creativity shouldn’t be following radio; it should be the other way around.

The spirit of Jazz is the spirit of openness.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one – to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

I do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Children are all foreigners.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.