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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Quincy Jones

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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Day Health Need Talk Yourself
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
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
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
It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
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

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

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