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Quincy Jones

You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
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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Age End Myself Practice Time
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
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
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
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Bad Myself Save Sing Song
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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People Right Unfair Yourself
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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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
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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Children Come Music Upset
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman

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