I’ve met every freak in the business.
QUINCY JONESIt’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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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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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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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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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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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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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 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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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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