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

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" 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've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time. "

" Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am. "

" At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. "

" 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. "

" See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules. "

" Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me. "

" Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill. "

" Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life. "

" 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. "

" One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people. "

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

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

" I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since. "

" 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. "

" I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being. "

" Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision. "

" 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. "

" The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. "

" It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness. "

" It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. "

" 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. "

" Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. "

" All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note. "

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

" 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. "

" Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were. "