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Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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I try to practice with my life.
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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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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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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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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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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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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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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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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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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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