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Jazz is about being in the moment.
Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
Actor
Bandleader
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Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
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Chicago
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Herbert Jeffrey Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
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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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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
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I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.
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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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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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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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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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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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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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The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.
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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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