American - Musician | April 12, 1940 -
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
Herbie Hancock
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I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.
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Take whatever happens and try to make it work.
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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.
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My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
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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.
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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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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
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I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record.
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Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves.
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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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