You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
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Herbie Hancock
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About Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. He started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. Hancock soon joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, he experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles using a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this time that he released one of his best-known and m…
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
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I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.