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Quincy Jones

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
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
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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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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
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
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Bad Myself Save Sing Song
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself

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