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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
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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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As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
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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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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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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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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles that's the key to happiness.
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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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 stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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The music becomes something that is its own entity.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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