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" Take whatever happens and try to make it work. "

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" The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. "

" It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. "

" 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. "

" I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn. "

" I've been curious ever since I was a little kid. "

" When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.' "

" I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour. "

" Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. "

" I try to practice with my life. "

" One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people. "

" It is people's hearts that move the age. "

" Music truly is the universal language. "

" You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life. "

" I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism. "

" Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. "

" At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. "