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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.”

Quincy Jones

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Bad Myself Save Sing Song
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
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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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
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.
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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
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
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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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember

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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