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" 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. "

Herbie Hancock

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" Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. "

" The music becomes something that is its own entity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself. "

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" One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. "

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

Herbie Hancock

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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. "

" Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis. "

" You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life. "

" It is people's hearts that move the age. "

" 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. "

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

Herbie Hancock

Best

Because

" 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. "

" I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures. "

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

Herbie Hancock

Jazz

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