“So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis ...” — Herbie Hancock Quote

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

Everything musically, for me, there's two kinds of music. There's Prince and Jimi Hendrix and then Miles Davis and everything filters through that.

Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.

Lincoln Davis has supported Nancy Pelosi's anti-business, big government policies a disturbing 83% of the time.

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.