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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.

Herbie Hancock

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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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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 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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So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.
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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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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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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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