Herbie Hancock Quotes
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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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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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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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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
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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 has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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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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All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
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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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I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
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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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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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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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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 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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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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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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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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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.
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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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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.