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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

Quincy Jones

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Children Criticism Greatness Love Mindset Peace Yourself
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 was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
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
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
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Bad Myself Save Sing Song
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
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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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
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
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
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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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself

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