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Herbie Hancock

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The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.


— Herbie Hancock


#openness #spirit

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.


— Herbie Hancock


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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.


— Herbie Hancock


#music #others #technique #value #yourself

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.


— Herbie Hancock


#music #note #play #right #right time

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.


— Herbie Hancock


#environment #eternally #just #linked #other

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.


— Herbie Hancock


#best #coming #i #practiced #thought

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.


— Herbie Hancock


#conclusion #early #ends #i #i remember

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.


— Herbie Hancock


#art #art form #form #happens #language

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.


— Herbie Hancock


#meaning #purpose #valuable #wisdom #without

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.


— Herbie Hancock


#knowledge #practice #wisdom #you






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Did you know about Herbie Hancock?

In 1983 Hancock had a mainstream hit with the Grammy-award winning instrumental single "Rockit" from the album Future Shock. Grinnell also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1972). [citation needed] Hancock was also bothered by the fact that many people did not understand avant-garde music.

As part of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island" "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians including bandleader Mongo Santamaría) "Maiden Voyage" "Chameleon" and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12 1940) is an American pianist keyboardist bandleader and composer.

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