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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

Quincy Jones

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
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
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
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
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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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
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
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
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
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
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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
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
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School

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