The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
QUINCY JONESPlaying the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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