I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
QUINCY JONESEvery 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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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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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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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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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