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Herbie Hancock Biography

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor. Starting his career with Donald Byrd, he shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet where Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles.

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You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

Change, Electronically, Elements, Give, Giving, Keys

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

Evolution, Exists, Human, Humans, Offers, Universe

Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.

Air, Develop, Inspiration, Mathematics, Pick

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.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Creating, Jazz, Share, Spirit

I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.

Apolitical, Goodwill, Mean, Moving, Organization, Unesco

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Thinking, Way, Problem, Problems, Ways, Having

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

Creating, Key, Keys, Time, Wisdom

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 musicians are getting into it.

Encouraging, Games, Musicians, People, Technology

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

Talking, Listening, Mouths, Make, Shorter

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

Key, Keys, Obstacles, Overcoming

Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

Courage, Mean, People, Secure, Trust, Wall

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.

Average, Comfortable, Country, Ideas, Mean

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.

Beauty, Carpe Diem, Compassion, Courage, Human, Things In Life

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

Jazz, Magnet, Pulled, Way

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

Already, Everyone, Somebody, Truth, Truth Is

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

Music, Vision, Jazz, Create, Avenues

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

Buddhism, Support, Vision, Attracted, Values

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being. . . the true artform is being a human being.

Artform, Dinner, Human, Musician, Parent

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

Able, Music, Play, Right, Value, Way

I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.

Years, Differences, Decision, Chance, Difference

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