Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
QUINCY JONESThe relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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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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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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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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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.”
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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