I never felt like I had a mother.
QUINCY JONESIf I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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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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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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’ve met every freak in the business.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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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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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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