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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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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 cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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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 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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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 try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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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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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.
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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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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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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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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'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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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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The music becomes something that is its own entity.
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