If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONESMy son is a hip-hop producer.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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