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Herbie Hancock

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

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Donna Grant

"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."

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Donna Grant

"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

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Donna Grant

"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."

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Donna Grant

"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."

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Donna Grant

"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."

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Donna Grant

"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."

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Donna Grant

"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

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Donna Grant

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

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Donna Grant

"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."

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Donna Grant

"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."

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Herbie Hancock
"Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different."

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Herbie Hancock
"The music becomes something that is its own entity."

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

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Herbie Hancock
"Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference."

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Herbie Hancock
"But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already."

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Herbie Hancock
"Jazz is about being in the moment."

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Herbie Hancock
"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."

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Herbie Hancock
"You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment."

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Herbie Hancock
"In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music."

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

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