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" I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music. "
Herbie Hancock
Create
Always
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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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" 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 think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn. "
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" 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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" I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music. "
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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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" We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us. "
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Need
" Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. "
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Music
Always
Different
" But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already. "
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Truth
Somebody
Everyone
" 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. "
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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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Beginning
" It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz. "
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Freedom
Jazz
Play
" I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time. "
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Time
Spiritual
Person
" It is people's hearts that move the age. "
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Age
People
Move
" You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life. "
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Something
You
Bring
" 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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You
Being
Doing
" Jazz is about being in the moment. "
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Jazz
Being
About
" Hip-hop is all over the planet. "
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Hip-Hop
Over
" When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni, I admire not only for her music but for her person, because she's a person that really stands out for what she believes in. "
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Her
Thought
Music
" 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. "
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View
Me
Music
" 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
" I try to practice with my life. "
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Life
Try
Practice
" I've been curious ever since I was a little kid. "
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Been
Little
Ever
" The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. "
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Spirit
Jazz
Openness
" One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. "
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Things
" When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano. "
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Mother
Best
Birthday
" 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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Great
Day
Life
" Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. "
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Music
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" 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. "
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Food
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" I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour. "
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