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" I try to practice with my life. "
Herbie Hancock
Life
Try
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" 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. "
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" Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more. "
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" 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. "
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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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Out
New
" When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being? "
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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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" The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there. "
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Stand Up
You
Believe
" It is people's hearts that move the age. "
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Age
People
Move
" 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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Time
Musicians
Music
" Hip-hop is all over the planet. "
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Hip-Hop
Over
" I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment. "
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Feel
Just
Moment
" 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. "
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Open
Look
Ideas
" 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. "
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" One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle. "
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People
Hope
Living
" One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything. "
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Conversation
Listening
Mouth
" I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures. "
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Life
Think
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" I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can. "
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" The music becomes something that is its own entity. "
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" My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. "
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Machines
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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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" Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life. "
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" 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. "
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