I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
QUINCY JONES
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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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 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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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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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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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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