My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONESI was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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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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