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I never felt like I had a mother.

Quincy Jones

I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
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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Economics Money Myself Racism
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
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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Laughter Loud Myself Truth
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
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Country Food Language Music Soul
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 never felt like I had a mother.

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