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Herbie Hancock Inspirational Quotes (76)

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I try to practice with my life.
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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
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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.
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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.
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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
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A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
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It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
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In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.
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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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