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Quincy Jones

My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
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
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Children Come Music Upset
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself

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