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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
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock
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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 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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I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
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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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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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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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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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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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It is people's hearts that move the age.
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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.
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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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The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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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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