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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.

Herbie Hancock

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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
Actor
Bandleader
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Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
Keyboardist
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Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
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I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.
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