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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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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.
Herbie Hancock
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 learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
Herbie Hancock
You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
Herbie Hancock
So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
Herbie Hancock
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
Herbie Hancock
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock
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'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
It is people's hearts that move the age.
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I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
Herbie Hancock
I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
Herbie Hancock
Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
Herbie Hancock
The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
Herbie Hancock
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Herbie Hancock
The music becomes something that is its own entity.
Herbie Hancock
People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
Herbie Hancock
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.
Herbie Hancock
