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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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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 don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
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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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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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The music becomes something that is its own entity.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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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 try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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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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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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Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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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 Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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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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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
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