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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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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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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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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 hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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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 like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
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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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Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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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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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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I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.
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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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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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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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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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