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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
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Herbert Jeffrey Herbie Hancock
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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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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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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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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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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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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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