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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.

Quincy Jones

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
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
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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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Laughter Loud Myself Truth
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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Age End Myself Practice Time
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Children Come Music Upset

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