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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.

Herbie Hancock

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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
Actor
Bandleader
Conductor
Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
Keyboardist
Musician
Pianist
Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
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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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It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles that's the key to happiness.
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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
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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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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.
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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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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.
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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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We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.
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So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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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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