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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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Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
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Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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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 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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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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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 don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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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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