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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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Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
Keyboardist
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Chicago
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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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If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.
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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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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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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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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'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
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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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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.
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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
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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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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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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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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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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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