You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONESAfter every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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