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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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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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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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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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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 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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It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles that's the key to happiness.
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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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People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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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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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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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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The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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