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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
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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.
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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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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
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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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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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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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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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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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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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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
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Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
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I try to practice with my life.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio it should be the other way around.
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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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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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