Herbie Hancock Quotes
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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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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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.
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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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I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.
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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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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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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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I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.
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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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We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.
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It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
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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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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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Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
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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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I have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.
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I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.