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" While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. "

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

" Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. "

" I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it. "

" Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me. "

" I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work. "

" See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules. "

" Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. "

" But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. "

" I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being. "

" I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal. "

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

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

" Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us. "

" You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment. "

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" Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. "

" You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist. "

" The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. "

" Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision. "

" I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. "

Looking Forward

" The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. "