Herbie Hancock Quotes - Page 6

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• 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.

  Herbie Hancock

  Taken, Thinking, Rights

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• My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

  Herbie Hancock

  Mother, Father, Math

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• I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Musician, Humans, Human Beings

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• I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

  Herbie Hancock

  Way, Looking Forward, Carving

  Twitter post from May 24, 2016

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• So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

  Herbie Hancock

  Change, Names, People

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• I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

  Herbie Hancock

  Trying, Stuff, Values

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• Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

  Herbie Hancock

  Oscars, Today, Jazz

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• People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.

  Herbie Hancock

  Long, People, Know How

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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.

  Herbie Hancock

  Ideas, Judging, Happens

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