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To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.

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Take whatever happens and try to make it work.

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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

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

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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.

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I think I was supposed to play jazz.

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

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Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

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I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.

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I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

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

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

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One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

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I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

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See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

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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.

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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.

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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

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We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

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I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

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My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.

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It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.

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In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

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I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment.

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