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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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Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
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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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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 much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
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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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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.
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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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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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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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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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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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I try to practice with my life.
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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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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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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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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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