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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.

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
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
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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Consciousness Myself Woman
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
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
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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 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 son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit

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