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The music becomes something that is its own entity.
Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
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Herbert Jeffrey Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
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A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
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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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I try to practice with my life.
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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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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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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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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
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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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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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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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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
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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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