When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
QUINCY JONESWhat 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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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