Latest Herbie Hancock Quotes from Interviews

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• If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

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  Ideas, Judging, Happens

• I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

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  Trying, Should, Importance

  "Musical Legend Herbie Hancock Fuses Jazz, Global Rhythms". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 16, 2010.

• As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

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  Men, Inhumanity To Man, World

  "Musical Legend Herbie Hancock Fuses Jazz, Global Rhythms". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 16, 2010.

• I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.

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  Writing, Past, Done

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

• 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.

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  Wall, Mean, People

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

• I have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.

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  New Experiences, People, Care

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

• People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

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  People, May, Want

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

• I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

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  Ideas, Challenges, Trying

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.