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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

Quincy Jones

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Children Come Music Upset
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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
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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Consciousness Myself Woman
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman

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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