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.
QUINCY JONESIf architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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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’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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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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