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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
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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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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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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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Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.
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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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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
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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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