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" I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour. "
Herbie Hancock
Solo
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" It is people's hearts that move the age. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn. "
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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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" We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment. "
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" It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness. "
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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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" 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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" I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being. "
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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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Day
Life
" I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since. "
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Old
Music
" When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends. "
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Never
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Life
" The music becomes something that is its own entity. "
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Entity
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" Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. "
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Way
" I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures. "
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Life
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" When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best. "
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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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Sky
People
" 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. "
Herbie Hancock
Kind
Hip-Hop
Beginning
" You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment. "
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Learn
You
Moment
" 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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" 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 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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" 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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You
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" Hip-hop is all over the planet. "
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Over
" Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. "
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Always
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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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Living
" I think I was supposed to play jazz. "
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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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