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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
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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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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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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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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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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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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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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I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
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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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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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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
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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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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
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