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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.

Quincy Jones

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.
QUINCY JONES

Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
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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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
QUINCY JONES

Better Life Move Myself Way
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Country Food Language Music Soul
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
QUINCY JONES

Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
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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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
QUINCY JONES

Choice Love Myself Player
It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
QUINCY JONES

Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
QUINCY JONES

Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
QUINCY JONES

Children Writing Yourself

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