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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. "
Herbie Hancock
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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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" I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music. "
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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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" 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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" Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. "
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" 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. "
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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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" You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment. "
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" In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. "
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" Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me. "
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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. "
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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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Trying
Someone
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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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Learn
" 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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Environment
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Peace
" The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas. "
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Up
Internet
New
" It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project. "
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Style
Go
Project
" The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. "
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Time
Music
" Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. "
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Child
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" Take whatever happens and try to make it work. "
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" Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward. "
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Way
Path
Life
" 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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Culture
Conflict
Hope
" 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
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Birthday
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Being
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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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Doing
" 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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Jazz
Kind
" But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already. "
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Truth
Somebody
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" The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. "
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Exhibit
Machines
Wisdom
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