Herbie Hancock Quotes
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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
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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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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
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Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. That’s something that’s built into the fiber of every human being. And I think that’s why people can respond to it. They feel the freedom in it. And the attributes of jazz are also admirable. It’s about dialogue. It’s about sharing. And teamwork. It’s in the moment, and it's nonjudgmental.
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Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.
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Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
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All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
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When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.
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I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
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Music isn't about music, it's about life.
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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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There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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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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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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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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World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
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One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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 are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.