I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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 never felt like I had a mother.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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