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It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
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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Chicago
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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.
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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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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 music becomes something that is its own entity.
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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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