Herbie Hancock Quotes
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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 think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
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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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Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
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In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
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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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You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.
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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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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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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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Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.
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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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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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I try to practice with my life.
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Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
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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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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.