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Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 12
Actor
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Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
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Herbert Jeffrey Herbie Hancock
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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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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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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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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 value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
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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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A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
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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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