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Quincy Jones

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
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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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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Day Health Need Talk Yourself
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed 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
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
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

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