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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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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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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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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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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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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
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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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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 value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
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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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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 Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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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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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.
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I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.
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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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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
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