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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

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
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
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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Ground Industry Myself Place
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
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start

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