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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 music becomes something that is its own entity.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
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I try to practice with my life.
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Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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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've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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 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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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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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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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
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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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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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