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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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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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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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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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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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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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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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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 pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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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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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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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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So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.
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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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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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We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.
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