Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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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.
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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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