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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

Quincy Jones

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
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
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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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
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 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
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
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
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed 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
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
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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Day Health Need Talk Yourself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

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