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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
Actor
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Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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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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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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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.
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I try to practice with my life.
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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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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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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've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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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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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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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I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
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I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.
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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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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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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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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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