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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

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
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
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
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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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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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Consciousness Myself Woman
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
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

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