I don’t remember feeling love.
QUINCY JONESYoung people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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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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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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