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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Herbie Hancock
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Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.
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The music becomes something that is its own entity.
Herbie Hancock -
I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
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If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.
Herbie Hancock -
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Herbie Hancock -
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.
Herbie Hancock
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Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
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You don't need the fame to be vital.
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It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
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But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.
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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
Herbie Hancock