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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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