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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

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 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
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
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
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Children Criticism Greatness Love Mindset Peace 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
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself

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

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