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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
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Chicago
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
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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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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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One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
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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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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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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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The music becomes something that is its own entity.
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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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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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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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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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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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