Herbie Hancock

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

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.