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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.

Quincy Jones

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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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Harmony Himself Imagination Old Person Young
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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Choice Love Myself Player
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
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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Age End Myself Practice Time
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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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
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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Love Myself People Wings

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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