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Music truly is the universal language.

~Herbie Hancock

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The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

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I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself.

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So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

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I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

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When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?

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Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

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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.

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I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 12th, 1940

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