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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
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Herbert Jeffrey Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
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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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It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles that's the key to happiness.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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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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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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A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
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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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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.
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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
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