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People Quotes by Herbie Hancock
- 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…
- So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
- I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve…
- One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
- Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is people's hearts that move the age.
- One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.
- See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.
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