Herbie Hancock Quotes
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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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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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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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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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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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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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One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
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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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When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.
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I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
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Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
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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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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.
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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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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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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
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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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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
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Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.