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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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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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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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
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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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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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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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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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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 try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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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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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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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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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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