Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONESAll 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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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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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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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.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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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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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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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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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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