Herbie Hancock Quotes
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
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We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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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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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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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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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One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
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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 Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
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Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
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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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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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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've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
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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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Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.
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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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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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Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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The true artform is being a human being.
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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.