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The only music I don’t like is bad music.

Quincy Jones

My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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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Beginning Day Father Greatness Myself Small
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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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
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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Day Health Need Talk Yourself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
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

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