Herbie Hancock Quotes
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I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
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I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
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Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
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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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You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
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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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I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
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Jazz is about being in the moment.
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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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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
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I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.
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You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.
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A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
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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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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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I try to practice with my life.
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It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
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Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.
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Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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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 think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
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Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.
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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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