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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

Quincy Jones

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
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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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Better Life Move Myself Way
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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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
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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Beginning Day Father Greatness Myself Small
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
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
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

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