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Coercion results from the fact that the state establishes the rate that the customer must pay, and the rate includes an allowance for the objected-to contributions.


Stewart F. Hancock Jr.

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HERBIE HANCOCK Grants Pass played real well, and we struggled against their triangle-and-two defense. We did not ha...
DAVE HANCOCK Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
HERBIE HANCOCK On a human level, the garbage man is just as important as the teacher or a rock star or a president,...
HERBIE HANCOCK I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
HERBIE HANCOCK 'I've got to learn how to do this. That's my instrument, and he can do it. Why can't I?
HERBIE HANCOCK You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements...
HERBIE HANCOCK Over the years I've made decisions about things, especially music, and have been scoffed at and ridi...
HERBIE HANCOCK I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours th...
HERBIE HANCOCK The thing is, much of the way I look at music now, and its role as an aspect of culture, and creativ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's E...
HERBIE HANCOCK But these days I never turn on radios, I always turn them off."
HERBIE HANCOCK There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Still, when I finally left Miles in '68 and got my own band, it was a logical step; because anybody ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Not too many people my age really zeroed in on the blues. Most of the people that listened to it wer...
HERBIE HANCOCK The fact that young hip-hop artists are searching for the jazz roots of their music acknowledges the...
HERBIE HANCOCK That's one of the reasons for the title of the record, Future 2 Future, because here they are creati...
HERBIE HANCOCK Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking h...
HERBIE HANCOCK We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at hum...
HERBIE HANCOCK Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a...
HERBIE HANCOCK Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I s...
HERBIE HANCOCK So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh ...
HERBIE HANCOCK It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into ...
HERBIE HANCOCK We live on a planet that now must face, hopefully, a form of globalization inclusive of a vision to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I...
HERBIE HANCOCK First of all I should explain that synthesizers themselves, I don't consider them instruments, they ...
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