Quotes by Chick Corea

“Youve got to create the space, then fill it.”

“I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.”

“Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, thats all it is about is opinions.”

“It represented friendship and a party,”

“Its one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but its another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.”

“Its all different things, ... Mainly my goals are to reach and play. I love to create new things. Sometimes its driven by a particular idea.”

“The most important lesson I took from Miles was his certainty as an artist. He was criticized in a lot of different ways, as most artists are ... when they try and do something, but he never wavered from continuing to make the kind of music that he really wanted to make. And that was very inspiring to me, ... that spiritual quality of courage and forthrightness.”

“The title grabbed me because I think life is the ultimate adventure. It?s a great attitude to have toward life - that it is an adventure, that you tackle things and have challenges and foes to overcome and goals to accomplish.”

“Its very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what hes creating, the fact that hes experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like were in a brotherhood of some kind... were in it together.”

I searched through rebellion drugs diets mysticism religions intellectu-alism and much more only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good clean and right.

I searched through rebellion drugs diet mysticism religion intellectual-ism and much more only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good clear and right.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what Im doing is Im studying.

I havent traveled in Africa nearly as much as Id like to. Ive been there a few times, and Id like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But thats the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.