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Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of 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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In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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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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So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.
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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 put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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 feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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