Music Quotes

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Hans Hofmann

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Harlan Howard

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Heinrich Heine

When words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Heinrich Heine

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

Herbie Hancock

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

Herbie Hancock

Music truly is the universal language.

Herbie Hancock

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Herbie Hancock

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

Herbie Hancock

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at musi...

Herbie Hancock

It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more.

Herbie Hancock

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Herbie Hancock

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

Herbie Hancock

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

Herbie Hancock

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.

Herbie Hancock

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

Herbie Hancock

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

Herbie Hancock

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a h...

Herbie Hancock

When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni, I admire not only for her music but for her person, because she's a person that really stands out for what she believes in.

Herbie Hancock

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Herbie Hancock