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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

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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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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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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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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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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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