Chick Corea famous quotes

05-24-2025

I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's 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.
-- Chick Corea

#Love Is #America #Cuba
You've got to create the space, then fill it.
-- Chick Corea

#Space #Musician
My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
-- Chick Corea

#Elements #Want #Students
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
-- Chick Corea

#Music #Mean #People
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.
-- Chick Corea

#Truth #Simple #Feel Good
Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
-- Chick Corea

#Long #Doubt #Musical
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
-- Chick Corea

#Spiritual #Awareness #Spiritual Beings
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
-- Chick Corea

#Night #Men #Play
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.
-- Chick Corea

#Music #Blue #Play
Every time I see a musician - it doesn't matter what age - that inspires me, there's always a secret little wish that maybe we'll play together, because that's how I learn and grow and so forth, you know. But hopefully there's a lot more.
-- Chick Corea

#Play #Inspire #Secret
I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.
-- Chick Corea

#Likes #Adventurous #Audience
My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.
-- Chick Corea

#Dad #Player #Piano
Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.
-- Chick Corea

#Inspiration #Careers #Icons
As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for it. Dustin Hoffman is one of the guys that sets a model for me, because of how good he is at being such different characters. Every time you see DeNiro, he's pretty much DeNiro - great, but DeNiro. Hoffman is different every time, depending on his character. That's how I see myself as a performer.
-- Chick Corea

#Character #Guy #Musician
My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
-- Chick Corea

#Wife #Musician #Singers
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.
-- Chick Corea

#Guitar #Playing Music #Band
You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.
-- Chick Corea

#Queens #Creativity #School

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