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Herbie Hancock Quotes

«Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I saw someone my age improvising, playing jazz..»
«Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking human beings and saying, what can you do with that.»
«I agree with taking the time and respecting the great innovators of the past, but the word innovation would cease to exist if we all do is look at the past.»
«We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at human beings first for a change, let's balance the thing out.»
«When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking about the music that I play called jazz.»
«Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.»
«Nowadays people jog and listen to music. Work out and listen to music. They've got these headphones on all the time. It's just the normal scene.»
«Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.»
«I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.»
«We realize that there doesn't seem to be a lot of people looking into new ways of reexamining the conventions that we've grown to accept in the music.»

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