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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

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
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young 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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
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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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
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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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
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
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself

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