China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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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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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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