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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.

Herbie Hancock

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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.
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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 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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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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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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It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
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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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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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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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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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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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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 value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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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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My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
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I try to practice with my life.
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