If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONESAfter 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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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 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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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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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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