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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

You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
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
The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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Artist Goodness Love Production Relationship Respect
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
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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People Right Unfair Yourself
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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
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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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
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
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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Love Myself People Wings

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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