You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
QUINCY JONESAll the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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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.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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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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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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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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