I was the most subtle person in the world.
QUINCY JONESMusic in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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