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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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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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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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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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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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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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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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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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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.
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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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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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