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.”
QUINCY JONESIt’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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 married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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