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

Quincy Jones

It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
QUINCY JONES

Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
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
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
QUINCY JONES

Choice Love Myself Player
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
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
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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.
QUINCY JONES

Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
QUINCY JONES

God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
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
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONES

Mom Music Myself
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
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.
QUINCY JONES

Children Come Music Upset
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

Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
QUINCY JONES

Economics Money Myself Racism

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