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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
Actor
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Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
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Herbert Jeffrey Herbie Hancock
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I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.
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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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I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
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I try to practice with my life.
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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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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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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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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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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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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
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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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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.
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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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