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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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" 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. "

" I think I was supposed to play jazz. "

" I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can. "

" As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment. "

" I think people have learned that Herbie Hancock can be defined as someone that you won't be able to figure out what he's going to do next. The sky is the limit as far as I'm concerned. "

" Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human. "

" When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best. "

" Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. "

" Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. "

" It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. "

" I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being. "

" I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment. "

" Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward. "

" 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. "

" I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts. "

" I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism. "

" I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music. "

" In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. "

" One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values. "

" When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends. "

" When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being? "

" I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others. "

" 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. "

" While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. "

" I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict. "

" To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen. "

" The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. "

" 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.' "

" Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. "

" 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. "