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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.

Quincy Jones

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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Economics Money Myself Racism
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Ground Industry Myself Place
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
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
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Better Life Move Myself Way
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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
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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Harmony Himself Imagination Old Person Young
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself

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