You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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 started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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