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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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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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The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
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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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If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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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 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 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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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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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 think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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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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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
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