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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.

Quincy Jones

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
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
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Harmony Himself Imagination Old Person Young
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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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Beginning Day Father Greatness Myself Small
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
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
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
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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 don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit 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

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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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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