Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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 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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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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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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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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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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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