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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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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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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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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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One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
Herbie Hancock
The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
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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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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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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
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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 I was supposed to play jazz.
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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.
Herbie Hancock
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.
Herbie Hancock
A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
Herbie Hancock
It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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