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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. "
Herbie Hancock
Trying
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" The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas. "
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" 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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" Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision. "
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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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" The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. "
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" The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. "
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" I'm not special, no more special than anybody else. "
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" Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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World
" You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist. "
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" Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. "
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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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Peace
" 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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Best
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" Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. "
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" Jazz is about being in the moment. "
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" I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned. "
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Who
Want
Paths
" Take whatever happens and try to make it work. "
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Work
Whatever
" I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment. "
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Feel
Just
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" 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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Jazz
Play
" All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note. "
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You
" It is people's hearts that move the age. "
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" Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human. "
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" My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels. "
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" It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. "
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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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" The music becomes something that is its own entity. "
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