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“I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Kids #Littles #Curious
“The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Inspirational #Buddhism #Creating
“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.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Cutting #Territory #Moments
“The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Music #Spirit #Jazz
“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.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Ipods #Listening #Musician
“Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Differences #Making A Difference #Tools
“Jazz is really about the human experience. Itâ€™s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. Thatâ€™s something thatâ€™s built into the fiber of every human being. And I think thatâ€™s why people can respond to it. They feel the freedom in it. And the attributes of jazz are also admirable. Itâ€™s about dialogue. Itâ€™s about sharing. And teamwork. Itâ€™s in the moment, and it's nonjudgmental.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Teamwork #Struggle #Thinking
“You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Self Esteem #Tables #Esteem
“Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision,”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Vision #Trying #Pathways
“Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Fear #Lying #Adventure
“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Music #Art #Language
“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.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Play #People #Bills
“It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Way #Jazz #Magnet
“The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Compassion #Carpe Diem #Spirit
“We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Diversity #Environment #Our Environment
“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Knowledge #Practice
“Jazz is about being in the moment.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Music #Jazz #Moments
“Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Music #Infinity #Life Is
“You don't need the fame to be vital.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Meaning Of Life #Needs #Fame
“It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Music #Spirit #Jazz
“Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Music #Jazz #Genres Of Music
“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

#Genre #Prove
“Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Buddhism #Challenges #Humans
“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.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Husband #Father #Dazzle
“The music becomes something that is its own entity.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Jazz #Entity
“I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Thinking #Way #Problem
“We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Together #Being True #Interconnection
“One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Music #People #Jazz
“A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Teacher #Creativity #Goal
“The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.”
-- Herbie Hancock

#Art #Creativity #People

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