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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
Actor
Bandleader
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Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
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Herbert Jeffrey Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
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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 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 feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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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 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 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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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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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've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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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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The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
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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.
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