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Quincy Jones

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
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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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
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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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
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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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Bad Myself Save Sing Song
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
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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Choice Love Myself Player
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself

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