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Herbie Hancock
American
Musician
Born:
Apr 12
,
1940
Jazz
Life
Me
Music
People
You
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It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
Herbie Hancock
Happiness
Life
Key
About
Part
Obstacles
Overcoming
Overcoming Obstacles
It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
Herbie Hancock
Jazz
Inclusive
Spirit
Exclusive
Which
Whole
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock
Music
Art
Language
Art Form
Form
Transcends
Happens
The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.
Herbie Hancock
You
Integrity
Heart
Human Being
Own
Believe
Solidity
Inside
Able
Strongest
Deliver
Soon
Up
Any
Going
Human
Just
Being
Order
Really
Stand
Stand Up
Away
Thing
Start
Need
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
Herbie Hancock
Jazz
Spirit
Openness
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.
Herbie Hancock
Other
Other Countries
Our
Ourselves
Some
Open
Countries
Re-Examine
Ideas
Look
Globalization
Comfortable
Cultures
Person
Them
Average
Average Person
Means
Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.
Herbie Hancock
Life
You
Yourself
Vision
Sometimes
Path
Will
Way
Forge
May
Move
Create
Your
Apparent
Forward
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock
Music
Jazz
Other
Borrowed
Also
Genres
Itself
Lent
Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
Herbie Hancock
Music
Time
Since
Always
Continuum
Different
Moment
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
Herbie Hancock
Wisdom
Knowledge
You
Practice
Attain
All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
Herbie Hancock
Needs
You
Note
Play
Right
It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more.
Herbie Hancock
Music
You
Technology
Sidetracked
Danger
Easy
See
Cases
More
Most
Ultimately
Lot
Get
Less
Less Is More
Works
I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment.
Herbie Hancock
Myself
Appropriate
Way
Feel
Any
Just
Moment
Express
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.
Herbie Hancock
Music
Old
Jazz
Classical
About
Classical Music
Since
Got
Been
Years
Off
Ever
Started
Playing
But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.
Herbie Hancock
Truth
Truth Is
Somebody
Everyone
It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
Herbie Hancock
Myself
Me
Jazz
Way
Magnet
Could
Like
Because
Did
Express
Pulled
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
Herbie Hancock
War
Music
Food
Freedom
World
Same Thing
Jazz
Cold
Cold War
Absolutely
Underground
Iron
Iron Curtain
Offered
Same
Behind
Curtain
Then
Thing
World War
Needed
World War II
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
Herbie Hancock
Music
Vision
Jazz
Musician
Kind
Classical
About
Classical Music
Only
Point
Became
Listened
Tunnel
Tunnel Vision
Certain
Certain Point
Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
Herbie Hancock
Creativity
Other
Way
Following
Around
Should
Radio
Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
Herbie Hancock
Me
Had
Impression
Getting
Biggest
Oscar
I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
Herbie Hancock
Music
Looking
Visions
New
Always
Avenues
Create
I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
Herbie Hancock
Time
Spiritual
Long
Long Time
Religious
Spiritual Person
Been
Person
Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.
Herbie Hancock
Else
Typical
Totally
Were
Anybody
Miles
Unique
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
Herbie Hancock
Me
Nobody
Child
Prodigy
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
Herbie Hancock
People
Jazz
Other
One Thing
About
Emphasized
Like
Doing
Were
Differently
Thing
Things
The music becomes something that is its own entity.
Herbie Hancock
Music
Own
Something
Entity
Becomes
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