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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”

Quincy Jones

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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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
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 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
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
After 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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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
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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People Right Unfair Yourself
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
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 you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
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!
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Choice Love Myself Player
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
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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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process

I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”

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