Herbie Hancock Quotes
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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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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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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Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
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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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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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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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I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
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I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
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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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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 think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
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Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
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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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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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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.
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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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The true artform is being a human being.
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I try to practice with my life.
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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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In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.