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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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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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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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