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I try to practice with my life.
Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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Herbert Jeffrey Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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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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I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
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I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
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So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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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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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
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I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
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I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
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Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
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I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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