Religion and the Arts -- Herbie Hancock speaks on Buddhism and Creativity
One of Herbie's recent
lectures, titled "Buddhism and Creativity" is worth looking at. Reddit's "jazz" subreddit is actually a pretty interesting forum, for being so large.
I am still miffed some chippie at school like ten years ago never returned my printed copy of Cage's Norton lectures (and I think she gave a friend of mine crabs or herpes), but never mind.
I will also be posting to this thread some additional comments on Herbie's lecture, as well as several interesting pieces of information about Kerouac's application of Catholicism and Buddhism to his own practice.
OK, at about 27:30 Herbie starts agreeing with me, and this is why I like talking about things like music and movies: there is something everyone has that one can appreciate, or one has not learned to appreciate. So, I don't like x's movies. Well, my view is that I don't understand how x's movies work. I cross the street and somebody almost kills me with a car or whatever? Well, I have choices, "take a picture" "wield a weapon" or "don't give a shit" or "all of the above." It's all the same thing. The world is yours, so treat it accordingly.
57:55 -- Herbie's anecdote about feeling liberated just because, "hey, I can do what I want, improvise, and make other people feel good."
To me that's freedom, and that's why I feel at home behind the piano or organ -- feeling at home, and making other people feel happy. That's why I can't get behind all this technology and iPads and stuff -- make it real. That's it.