You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONESDid you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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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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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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.
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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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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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