I was the most subtle person in the world.
QUINCY JONESI never felt like I had a mother.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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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 never felt like I had a mother.
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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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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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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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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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