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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.

Quincy Jones

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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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
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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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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Consciousness Myself Woman
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
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
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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Beginning Day Father Greatness Myself Small
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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People Right Unfair Yourself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
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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Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Better Life Move Myself Way
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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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start

China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.

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