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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.

Quincy Jones

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
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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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
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
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
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
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
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
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
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
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
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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Ground Industry Myself Place
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School

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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