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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.

Quincy Jones

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
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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
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!
QUINCY JONES

Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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Consciousness Myself Woman
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
QUINCY JONES

Act Excellence Habit Myself
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
QUINCY JONES

Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
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’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
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.
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Economics Money Myself Racism
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record

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