Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
QUINCY JONESI 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 can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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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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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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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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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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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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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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