They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
QUINCY JONESAll guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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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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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’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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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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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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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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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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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