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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
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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 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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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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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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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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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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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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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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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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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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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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The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
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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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People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.
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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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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.
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