Famous Chick Corea quotes that’ll make you appreciate him even more

Keyboard genius Chick Corea’s family announced on Wednesday of his passing away due to a rare kind of cancer. The musician pushed boundaries in Jazz music in his five-decade career.

Corea, 79, was a 23-time Grammy Award winner. He has been a part of some of the most famous Jazz albums of his time.

Here are some famous quotes by Chick Corea. 

“Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything.”

“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.”

“You don’t have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.”

“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.”

“I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.”

“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.”

“I’ve noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.”

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