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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.

Quincy Jones

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
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
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
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
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid 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
It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
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
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
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Age End Myself Practice Time
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World

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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