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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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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
Herbie Hancock
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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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I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
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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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All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
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Music isn't about music, it's about life.
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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.
Herbie Hancock
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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
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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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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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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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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 never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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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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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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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At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
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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'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
Herbie Hancock