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Quincy Jones

If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
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
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
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Country Food Language Music Soul

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