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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
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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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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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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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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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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 think I was supposed to play jazz.
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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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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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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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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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The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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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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I try to practice with my life.
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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